Mahn Win Maung | |
Nationality: | Karen |
Order: | 3rd President of Burma |
Term Start: | 13 March 1957 |
Term End: | 2 March 1962 |
Predecessor: | Ba U |
Primeminister: | U Nu Ne Win U Nu |
Birth Date: | 17 April 1916 |
Birth Place: | Hlezeit village, Kyonpyaw Township, Bassein District, Lower Burma, British India |
Death Place: | Yangon, Myanmar |
Spouse: | Mya May |
Alma Mater: | University of Rangoon |
Party: | AFPFL |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency Agga Maha Thray Sithu Agga Maha Thiri Thudhamma |
Awards: | Independence Mawgunwin (Second Class) |
Native Name Lang: | my |
Mahn Win Maung (Burmese: မန်းဝင်းမောင် in Burmese pronounced as /máɰ̃ wɪ́ɰ̃ màʊɰ̃/; 17 April 1916 – 4 July 1989) was a Burmese politician who served as the third president of Burma.
Win Maung was an ethnic Karen and born on 17 April 1916 in the Irrawaddy delta, son of Daw Tharya and U Shwe Yin. He graduated with a B.A. from Rangoon University's Judson College in 1937.
Between 1947 and 1956 he was variously Minister of Ministry of Mining and Labour, Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunication and Minister of the Ministry of Water, Air and Coastal Ship.
He was selected by Prime Minister U Nu for the presidency in March 1957.[1] He served for five years until 2 March 1962, when General Ne Win's military coup d'état ousted Nu's government. He was imprisoned between 1962 and 1967.
He privately visited the United States to receive medical treatment from 16 to 28 December 1957. During his visit to the U.S., he met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States.[2]