Second Tunku Abdul Rahman Ministry

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The Second Tunku Abdul Rahman Ministry was formed following the general elections victory of the Alliance Party led by Tunku Abdul Rahman. The ministry was sworn in on August 22, 1959 and Tunku Abdul Rahman assumed the office of Prime Minister from Abdul Razak Hussein who was the Acting Prime Minister after Rahman took a three month leave of office to campaign for the elections.

All federal ministers from the First Tunku Abdul Rahman Ministry were retained with the exception of H.S. Lee who did not contest the 1959 elections and Mohd Khir Johari who was contesting in the constituency of Kedah Tengah, where elections had been postponed to September 30, 1959 ^[1].

The composition of the ministry is as follows:

Portfolio	Office Bearer	Party
Prime Minister     Deputy Prime Minister	Tunku Abdul Rahman     Abdul Razak Hussein	UMNO UMNO
Minister of Home Affairs and Justice	Sulaiman Datuk Abdul Rahman	UMNO
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Ismail Abdul Rahman	UMNO
Minister of Defence	Abdul Razak Hussein	UMNO
Minister of Finance	Tan Siew Sin	MCA
Minister of Education (until October 3, 1959) (from October 3, 1959)	Abdul Aziz Ishak Mohd Khir Johari	UMNO UMNO
Minister of Natural Resources	Bahaman Shamsuddin	UMNO
Minister of Transport	Abdul Rahman Talib	UMNO
Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives (until 1963) (from 1963)	Abdul Aziz Ishak Mohd Khir Johari	UMNO UMNO
Minister of Health	V. T. Sambanthan	MIC
Minister of Works, Post and Telecommunications	Sardon Haji Jubir	UMNO
Minister of Labour and Social Welfare	Ong Yoke Lin	MCA
Minister of Rural Development	Tunku Abdul Rahman	UMNO
Minister of Trade and Industry	Ismail Abdul Rahman	UMNO

Abdul Aziz Ishak left the Cabinet in 1963 after disagreements with Tunku Abdul Rahman on strategies for rural development and he eventually went on to form the short lived National Convention Party that joined the left wing Malayan People's Socialist Front to contest the 1964 general elections^[2].

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