Mahathir Mohamad

Mahathir Mohamad

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Mahathir Mohamad
Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun

Mahathir Mohamad

4th Prime Minister of Malaysia In office 16 July 1981 – 31 October 2003 Monarch Ahmad Shah Iskandar Azlan Shah Jaafar Salahuddin Mizan Zainal Abidin (Regent) Sirajuddin Musa Hitam Ghafar Baba Anwar Ibrahim Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Hussein Onn Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Deputy

Preceded by Succeeded by

4th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia In office 5 March 1976 – 16 July 1981 Monarch Yahya Petra Ahmad Shah

Prime Minister Hussein Onn Preceded by Succeeded by Hussein Onn Musa Hitam

21st Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement In office 20 February 2003 – 31 October 2003 Preceded by Thabo Mbeki

Mahathir Mohamad

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Succeeded by Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Member of the Dewan Rakyat In office 25 April 1964 – 10 May 1969 Constituency Kota Setar Selatan

In office 24 August 1974 – 21 March 2004 Constituency Kubang Pasu Personal details Born 10 July 1925 Alor Star, British Malaya (now Malaysia) United Malays National Organisation Siti Hasmah Marina Mirzan Melinda Mokhzani Mukhriz Maizura Mazhar University of Malaya Physician Sunni Islam

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Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad (Jawi: ‫; ﻣﺤﻀﻴﺮ ﺑﻦ ﻣﺤﻤﺪ‬pronounced Malay pronunciation: [maˈhaðɪr bɪn moˈhamad]; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician who was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysia 's longest serving Prime Minister. His political career spanned almost 40 years. Born and raised in Alor Setar, Kedah, Mahathir excelled at school and became a medical doctor. He became active in the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Malaysia 's largest political party, before entering parliament in 1964. He served one term before losing his seat, before falling out with the then Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman and being expelled from UMNO. When Abdul Rahman resigned,

Citations: Cited texts • Dhillon, Karminder Singh (2009). Malaysian Foreign Policy in the Mahathir Era 1981–2003: Dilemmas of Development. NUS Press. ISBN 9971-69-399-2. • Milne, R. S.; Mauzy, Diane K. (1999). Malaysian Politics under Mahathir (http://books.google.com.au/ books?id=5hYemBg43pkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=malaysian+politics+under+mahathir&hl=en& ei=2HQjTeOGBMTzcePT5J4K&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1& ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-17143-1. • Morais, J. Victor (1982). Mahathir: A Profile in Courage. Eastern Universities Press. OCLC 8687329. • Sankaran, Ramanathan; Mohd Hamdan Adnan (1988). Malaysia 's 1986 General Election: the Urban-Rural Dichotomy. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN 981-3035-12-9. • Stewart, Ian (2003). The Mahathir Legacy: a Nation Divided, a Region at Risk. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-977-X. • Wain, Barry (2010). Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-230-23873-4. 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