Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud is the longest serving chief minister and elected representative. He is a leader who is courageous and far-sighted.
After graduating in law from the University of Adelaide, Taib joined the Judiciary Department in February 1962. He was appointed a member of the Council Negeri on July 22, 1963, when he was only 27 years old.
Taib was born in Miri on May 21, 1936, after his parents had moved from Mukah. He is the eldest among seven siblings. He had his early education at St Joseph’s Primary School in Miri and continued his education at St Joseph’s Secondary School in Kuching.
Taib scored excellent results in the Senior Cambridge examination, which enabled him to obtain a Shell Scholarship to further his study at University of Adelaide in 1958.
In the first Sarawak Cabinet, Taib was appointed Communication and Works Minister from 1963 to 1966 and as Development and Forest Minister in 1967. He was later called up to join the Federal Cabinet until 1981. Taib was appointed to numerous portfolios such as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry (1968 - 1970), Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (1970- 1972), Primary Industries Minister (1977), Defence Minister (1978), Information Minister as well as Socio Economic Planning and Research Minister (1979) and Federal Territories Minister (1980).
In 1981, Taib returned to Sarawak to contest in the Sebandi by-election. After he won, he was appointed chief minister.
He was the assemblyman for Sebandi until 1987 and after that, he became the Asajaya assemblyman until the 2006 state election when he decided to contest in Balingian. Taib was also Samarahan member of parliament from 1970 to 2008.
(Profiles of the chief ministers were translated from the official 45th anniversary souvenir book, ‘Perayaan 45 tahun Sarawak maju dalam Malaysia, 1963 - 2008’).
After graduating in law from the University of Adelaide, Taib joined the Judiciary Department in February 1962. He was appointed a member of the Council Negeri on July 22, 1963, when he was only 27 years old.
Taib was born in Miri on May 21, 1936, after his parents had moved from Mukah. He is the eldest among seven siblings. He had his early education at St Joseph’s Primary School in Miri and continued his education at St Joseph’s Secondary School in Kuching.
Taib scored excellent results in the Senior Cambridge examination, which enabled him to obtain a Shell Scholarship to further his study at University of Adelaide in 1958.
In the first Sarawak Cabinet, Taib was appointed Communication and Works Minister from 1963 to 1966 and as Development and Forest Minister in 1967. He was later called up to join the Federal Cabinet until 1981. Taib was appointed to numerous portfolios such as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry (1968 - 1970), Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (1970- 1972), Primary Industries Minister (1977), Defence Minister (1978), Information Minister as well as Socio Economic Planning and Research Minister (1979) and Federal Territories Minister (1980).
In 1981, Taib returned to Sarawak to contest in the Sebandi by-election. After he won, he was appointed chief minister.
He was the assemblyman for Sebandi until 1987 and after that, he became the Asajaya assemblyman until the 2006 state election when he decided to contest in Balingian. Taib was also Samarahan member of parliament from 1970 to 2008.
(Profiles of the chief ministers were translated from the official 45th anniversary souvenir book, ‘Perayaan 45 tahun Sarawak maju dalam Malaysia, 1963 - 2008’).
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