Abul Fazal Mohammad Ahsanuddin Chowdhury (1 July 1915 – 30 August 2001) was a Bengali public servant and judge who served as
President of Bangladesh
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from 27 March 1982 to 10December 1983.
Biography
Chowdhury was born on 1 July 1915 in
Gouripur,
Mymensingh District,
Bengal Presidency
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(now
Bangladesh
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).
He attended the
University of Dhaka.
Career
He joined the Bengal Civil Service in 1942, and subsequently served as a regional district judge.
He was appointed Justice of the Dhaka High Court on 17 December 1968 by the then President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, and later a Justice of the Appellate Division of the
Supreme Court
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on 30 January 1974. He retired from service on 1 July 1977 after President
Ziaur Rahman
Ziaur Rahman (19 January 193630 May 1981) was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the sixth president of Bangladesh from 1977 until Assassination of Ziaur Rahman, his assassination in 1981. One of the leading figures of t ...
reduced the retirement age of judges from 65 to 62.
Following a military coup d'état in March 1982, the army chief of staff
Hossain Mohammad Ershad assumed power as the chief martial law administrator, and Chowdhury was made the
President of Bangladesh
President of Bangladesh (POB), officially the President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is the head of state of Bangladesh and commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces.
The role of the president has changed three times since ...
on 27 March 1982, a position which he held till 10 December 1983. Ershad then dismissed Chowdhury and assumed the presidency for himself.
Chowdhury was the chairman of
Bangladesh Scouts, chairman of the management board and trustee board of Dhaka Child Hospital, chairman of National Foundation of Mental Health, chairman of the managing committee of Dhaka Law College, chairman of
Anjuman Mufidul Islam, and chairman of Dhaka High Court mazar committee.
Death
Chowdhury died on 30 August 2001 in
Dhaka
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, Bangladesh.
See also
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References
1915 births
2001 deaths
Jatiya Party politicians
Presidents of Bangladesh
University of Dhaka alumni
People from Mymensingh District
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