Tömür Dawamat | |
Native Name: | |
Office: | Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress |
Term Start: | 27 March 1993 |
Term End: | 15 March 2003 |
1Blankname: | Chairman |
1Namedata: | Qiao Shi Li Peng |
Office1: | Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |
Term Start1: | 1985 |
Term End1: | 1993 |
Predecessor1: | Ismail Amat |
Successor1: | Ablet Abdureshit |
Office2: | Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional People's Congress |
Term Start2: | 1979 |
Term End2: | 1985 |
Predecessor2: | new position |
Successor2: | Hamudun Niyaz |
Office4: | Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Revolutionary Committee |
Term Start4: | March 1964 |
Term End4: | September 1968 |
1Blankname4: | Chairman |
1Namedata4: | Saifuddin Azizi |
Birth Date: | 16 June 1927[1] |
Birth Place: | Toksun, Xinjiang, Republic of China |
Death Place: | Beijing, China |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Resting Place: | Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery |
Tömür Dawamat (ug|تۆمۈر داۋامەت|Tömür Dawamet; Chinese: s=铁木尔·达瓦买提|p=Tiěmù'ěr Dáwǎmǎití; June 16, 1927 – December 19, 2018) was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1985 to 1993.[2]
Tömür was an ethnic Uyghur. He started his working career in May 1950 and later became the local leader from 1954 to 1964. He held a high position in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Revolution Committee from 1968 to 1979 and then became Chief of the People's Congress of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region before he took office as the chairman of Xinjiang in 1985. After his chairmanship, he was a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.[3]
Tömür Dawamat died on December 19, 2018, at the age of 91.[4]