Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan
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| Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan | |
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| In office 14 December 1948 – 24 October 1954 |
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| President | Ghulam Muhammad |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| Succeeded by | Abdul Wahab Khan |
| In office 14 June 1962 – 19 August 1963 |
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| Preceded by | Abdul Wahab Khan |
| Succeeded by | Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry |
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| Political party | Muslim League |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan (1889 - 19 August 1963), was the President (speaker) of Pakistan's first Constituent Assembly.
He was born in 1889 in a humble peasant family of Faridpur, Bengal. He obtained an MA degree in English in 1913 and a law degree in 1915 and settled for legal profession in Faridpur.
Tamizuddin created history when the Constituent Assembly was dismissed by Governor General Ghulam Mohammad in 1954. Tamizuddin challenged the dismissal in the court and although the High Court agreed and overturned it, the Federal Court under Justice Muhammad Munir upheld the dismissal. The decision to uphold the dismissal of the constituent assembly was to mark the beginning of the overt role of Pakistan's military and civil establishment in Pakistani politics.
Tamizuddin Khan, for some time, kept aloof from politics after the verdict in 1954. He came back to active politics again and was elected an MNA under the 1962 constitution. He was elected the Speaker of the Pakistan National Assembly, the position he held till his death on 19 August 1963.
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| Preceded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
Speaker of National Assembly 14 December 1948 — 24 October 1954 |
Succeeded by Abdul Wahab Khan |
| Preceded by Abdul Wahab Khan |
2nd Term 14 June 1962 — 19 August 1963 |
Succeeded by Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry |
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