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    Tun Hussein Onn was Malaysia's third prime minister, holding office from 1976 to 1981. He received an education in Singapore and Johor Bahru before joining the military and serving in World War II. After the war, he held positions in the civil service and police in Malaysia before entering politics with UMNO in 1949. Tun Hussein Onn resigned as prime minister in 1981 due to health issues but was renowned for his emphasis on national unity and policies addressing economic imbalances.

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    Tun Hussein Onn was Malaysia's third prime minister, holding office from 1976 to 1981. He received an education in Singapore and Johor Bahru before joining the military and serving in World War II. After the war, he held positions in the civil service and police in Malaysia before entering politics with UMNO in 1949. Tun Hussein Onn resigned as prime minister in 1981 due to health issues but was renowned for his emphasis on national unity and policies addressing economic imbalances.

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    Tun Hussein Onn was Malaysia's third prime minister, holding office from 1976 to 1981. He received an education in Singapore and Johor Bahru before joining the military and serving in World War II. After the war, he held positions in the civil service and police in Malaysia before entering politics with UMNO in 1949. Tun Hussein Onn resigned as prime minister in 1981 due to health issues but was renowned for his emphasis on national unity and policies addressing economic imbalances.

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    TUN HUSSEIN ONN

    (1976-1981)

    He was born in Johor Bahru, Johor on February 12, 1922 to Dato Onn Jaafar and Datin Halimah

    Hussein.

    He received his early education in Singapore and at the English College in Johor Bahru. After

    leaving school, he joined the Johor Military Forces as a cadet in 1940 and was sent a year later

    to the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun, India. Upon completion of his training, he was

    absorbed into the Indian Army and served in the Middle East when the Second World War

    broke. After the war, his vast experience prompted the British to employ him as an instructor at

    the Malayan Police Recruiting and Training Centre in Rawalpindi.

    Tun Hussein came back to Malaysia in 1945 and was appointed Commandant of the Johor Bahru

    Police Depot. The following year he joined the Malaya Civil Service as an assistant

    administrative officer in Segamat, Johor. He was later posted to the state of Selangor, becoming

    Kelang and Kuala Selangor’s district officer.

    Tun Hussein, who came from a family with deep nationalistic spirit and political roots, resigned

    from the civil service to go into politics. In 1949, he became the first youth chief of UMNO

    (United Malays National Organisation), a party his father helped established. In 1950, he was

    elected the UMNO secretary general. Tun Hussein however left UMNO in 1951 to join his father

    in forming the Independence of Malaya Party (IMP).

    With IMP losing momentum, Tun Hussein went to London to study law at Lincoln's Inn,

    qualifying as a Barrister-at-Law. He came back as a certified lawyer and practiced in Kuala

    Lumpur.

    Tun Hussein returned to politics in 1968 after being persuaded by Prime Minister Tun Abdul

    Razak to rejoin UMNO. He stood in and won the general elections in 1969 and was then

    appointed as the education minister. Tun Hussein's meteoric rise continued when on August 13,

    1973 he succeeded the late Tun Dr Ismail as the Deputy Prime Minister. On January 15, 1976

    he was appointed as the prime minister of Malaysian after the passing away of Tun Razak.

    Tun Hussein is renowned for stressing on the issue of unity through policies aimed at rectifying

    economic imbalances between the communities. For instance, April 20, 1981 saw the National

    Unit Trust Scheme being launched. He also gave serious consideration to the concept of Rukun

    Tetangga and the fight against the drug menace.


    Tun Hussein, who was married to Toh Puan Suhaila Tan Sri Haji Mohd Noah,

    underwent a coronary bypass in early 1981. On July 17 the same year, he retired from active

    politics and relinquished his prime minister post due to health concerns. He passed away on May

    29, 1990 at the age of 68.

    Tun Hussein Onn was Malaysia’s third prime minister, leading the country from 1976 to 1981.

    Reading was his favourite pastime since his youth and he once said, "I love to read books on

    politics, sometimes war stories. However, I am not very interested in books on love stories". He

    was also known for his meticulousness. Dr. Zainah Anwar (NST, 1981), in her article "Hussein –

    The Inside Story" wrote, "It's common knowledge that he goes through all his speeches and

    important papers with a six-inch ruler to ensure that he does not miss out the important points,

    which he then proceeds to underline with a red pen."

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