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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Bengali statesman, public servant and judge (1915–2001)}}{{Infobox officeholder<br /> |name = A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury<br /> |image = ChowdhuryJusticeAFMAhsanuddin.jpg<br /> |imagesize = 200px<br /> |office = [[President of Bangladesh]]<br /> |term_start = 27 March 1982<br /> |term_end = 10 December 1983<br /> |predecessor = [[Abdus Sattar (president)|Abdus Sattar]]<br /> |successor = [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]]<br /> |birth_date = {{birth date|1915|7|1|df=y}}<br /> |birth_place = [[Mymensingh District|Mymensingh]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]&lt;br /&gt;(now in [[Bangladesh]])<br /> |death_date = {{death date and age|2001|8|30|1915|7|1|df=y}}<br /> |death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh<br /> |party = [[Jatiya Party (Ershad)|Jatiya Party]]<br /> |alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka]]<br /> }}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Abul Fazal Mohammad Ahsanuddin Chowdhury&#039;&#039;&#039; (1 July 1915 – 30 August 2001) was a Bengali public servant and judge who served as the [[president of Bangladesh]] from 1982 to 1983.<br /> <br /> ==Biography==<br /> Chowdhury was born in 1915. He graduated and obtained his LL.B. degree from [[Dhaka University]]. He joined the Bengal Civil Service (judicial) in 1942, and subsequently served as district judge in [[Sylhet]], [[Rangpur, Bangladesh|Rangpur]] and [[Dhaka]].&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|editor-last1=Lentz|editor-first1=Harris M.|title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|date=2014|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Hoboken|isbn=9781134264902|page=70}}&lt;/ref&gt; 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|Supreme Court]] on 30 January 1974. He retired from service on 1 July 1977.<br /> <br /> ==Politics==<br /> Following a military coup d&#039;état in March 1982, the army chief of staff [[Hossain Mohammad Ershad]] assumed power as the chief martial law administrator, and Justice Ahsanuddin Chowdhury was made [[President of Bangladesh]] on 27 March 1982, a position which he held till 10 December 1983. Ershad then dismissed Ahsanuddin and assumed the presidency.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|last1=Shrestha|first1=Nanda R.|title=Nepal and Bangladesh|date=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|isbn=9781576072851|page=234}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Social and welfare institutions==<br /> He 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-i-mufidul Islam, and chairman of Dhaka High Court mazar committee. He died on 30 August 2001.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> {{s-start}}<br /> {{s-off}}<br /> {{s-bef|before=[[Abdus Sattar (president)|Abdus Sattar]]}}<br /> {{s-ttl|title=[[President of Bangladesh]]|years=1982–1983}}<br /> {{s-aft|after={{nowrap|[[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]]}}}}<br /> {{s-end}}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{BangladeshPresidents}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Chowdhury, A.F.M. Ahsanuddin}}<br /> [[Category:1915 births]]<br /> [[Category:2001 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Jatiya Party politicians]]<br /> [[Category:Presidents of Bangladesh]]<br /> [[Category:University of Dhaka alumni]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub}}</div>

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