Tunku abdul rahman putra al-haj biography

Prime Minister of Malaysia from to

For other people named Tunku Abdul Rahman, see Tunku Abdul Rahman (disambiguation).

TunkuAbdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah (Jawi: ‏تونكو عبد الرحمن ڤوترا الحاج ابن المرحوم سلطان عبد الحميد حليم شاه; 8 February &#;&#; 6 December ) was a Malaysian statesman and lawyer who served as the first prime minister of Malaysia and the head of government of its predecessor states from to He was the first chief minister of the Federation of Malaya from to He supervised the independence process that culminated on 31 August As an independent Malaysia's first prime minister, he dominated the country's politics for the next 13 years.

In , he successfully incorporated the Federation of Malaya, British North Borneo (renamed Sabah), Sarawak, and Singapore into the state of Malaysia. However, tensions between the Malay and Chinese communities resulted in Singapore's expulsion in His poor performan