Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa

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Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa (mongol. Сүхбаатарын Янжмаа; born Nemendeyen Yanjmaa Нэмэндэён Янжмаа; 1893 - 1963) was a Mongolian politician.

Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa served on the politburo of the People's Revolutionary Party from 1940 until 1954, and was Secretary of the party's Central Committee from 1941 until 1947. She was a member of the Presidium of the Little Hural (the executive committee of the Great Hural, or Parliament) from 1940 to 1950, and of the Great Hural from 1950 to 1962. Following the death of Gonchigiin Bumtsend, she served as acting President of Mongolia for the transitional period, lasting from 23 September 1953 until 7 July 1954.

This made her the first woman in the role of head of state of a republic, at least provisionally. The first woman to take this role formally as well was Isabel Martínez de Perón in Argentinia in 1974. The first one based on a popular election was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir in Iceland in 1980.

Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa was the widow of Damdin Sükhbaatar, considered a military hero of Mongolia, who died in 1923 at the age of 30. In place of her father's name Nemedeyen, as normally the case in Mongolia, she adopted the name of her former husband after his death.

Preceded by Gonchigiin Bumtsend

President of Mongolia September 23, 1953 - July 07, 1954

Succeeded by Jamtsarangiin Sambuu

Persondata
NAME	Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nemendeyen Yanjmaa; Сүхбаатарын, Янжмаа (mongolian);
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Mongolian Politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mongolia
DATE OF DEATH	1963
PLACE OF DEATH	Ulan Bator, Mongolia