Tan Sri Datuk Chik Mohamad Yusuf bin Sheikh Abdul Rahman (3 March 1907 – 26 June 1975), better known as C.M. Yusuf, was the third

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of the Dewan Rakyat, the lower house in the

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. The school SMK Dato' Bendahara C.M Yusuf in

Tanjung Tualang Tanjung Tualang is a mukim in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. History It was originally one of the major tin-mining towns in Malaysia around early 1900s. Tanjung Tualang obtained its name from a type of tree called tualang and later a major tin ...

, Perak is named after him. A road in Ipoh was also named after him.

Biography

C.M. Yusuf received his Bachelor of Arts from the

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.Parliamentary Debates: Official Report
Columns 2515 to 2516. Dewan Rakyat. Accessed 9 June 2010 He was an Orang Besar (traditional positions of authority appointed by the royalty) in the state of

Perak Perak () is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, and Selangor to the south. Thailand's ...

, having been conferred the title "Dato' Bendahara Perak" by the

Sultan of Perak The Sultan of Perak (سلطان ڤيراق) is one of the oldest hereditary seats among the Malay states. When the Sultanate of Malacca empire fell to Portugal in 1511, Sultan Mahmud Syah I retreated to Kampar, Sumatra, and died there in ...

Sultan Yusuf Izzuddin Shah Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Jalil Karamatullah Nasiruddin Mukhataram Shah Radziallah Hu'an-hu, KCMG (15 January 1890 - 4 January 1963) was the 32nd Sultan of Perak, a state in the then Federation of Malaya. Early lif ...

, in 1959. Prior to being elected Speaker, C.M. Yusuf served important positions in the legislature of Malaysia. He was a member of the Malayan

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, the predecessor to the present-day Parliament, before the independence of Malaya in 1957. He was also a Senator from the state of Perak in the Dewan Negara. He was elected

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on 25 November 1964 and served for nearly ten years.

Honour

Honour of Malaysia

* : ** Commander of the

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(P.M.N.) - Tan Sri (1972)

References

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