Hussein Onn

Tun Hussein bin Dato 'Onn ( Johor Bahru , February 12 1922 - South San Francisco , May 29 1990 ) was a Malaysian politician. In 1976 he became the third prime minister of his country. Often was referred to him under the Malaysian nickname Bapa Perpaduan (father of the unit).

Biography
Onn is born of Onn Jaafar, founder of UMNO . After leaving the primary school was finished in Singapore when he was a cadet at the Indian Military Academy . After his training, he was admitted to the Indian Army. Onn served in the Middle East when in Europe the Second World War broke out.

After the war, Malaysia was still part of Britain and became Onn thanks to his experience recruited by the British as an instructor for the Malaysian police school inRawalpindi . In 1945 he finally returned to Malaysia, where he was appointed as commander of the police depot in Johor Bahru.

Politics
In 1949 decided Onn, his political background, to leave the military life and to build a political career. In 1950 he was already elected Secretary-General of the United Malays National Organisation . Barely a year later, he joined his father in his upcoming Malaysian independence party . When this party lost much ground suddenly moved towards the other parties Onn to London to Law to study at the Lincoln's Inn . His first service as a qualified lawyer he did in Kuala Lumpur .

His brother Abdul Razak, who was then prime minister, convinced him in 1968 to return to politics. In 1969 he was already elected and appointed Minister of Education . Four years later he succeeded Ismail Abdul Rahman as Deputy Prime Minister and, after the death of Razak in 1976, he became the new prime minister of Malaysia. In 1981 he underwent a bypass surgery allowing him only months later for medical reasons, renounced his post.

After his political career, he remained active in welfare. Eventually in 1990, at the age of 68, died in the Seaton Medical Centre in California .