Editing Mohammad Mohammadullah

{{Short description|President of Bangladesh from 1973 to 1975}}

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Mohammad Mohammadullah
| native_name         = {{nobold|মোহাম্মদ মোহাম্মদুল্লাহ}}
| native_name_lang    = bn
| image   =
| caption             = Mohammad Mohammadullah
| office              = 3rd [[President of Bangladesh]]
| primeminister       = [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]]
| term_start          = 24 December 1973
| term_end            = 25 January 1975
| predecessor         = [[Abu Sayeed Chowdhury]]
| successor           = Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
| office1             = 2nd [[Vice President of Bangladesh]]
| president1          = [[Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad]]
| predecessor1        = [[Syed Nazrul Islam]]
| successor1          = [[Abdus Sattar]] 
| termstart1          = 15 August 1975
| termend1            = 6 November 1975
| president2          = Abdus Sattar
| predecessor2        = [[Mirza Nurul Huda]]
| successor2          = [[A. K. M. Nurul Islam]]
| termstart2          = 23 March 1982
| termend2            = 24 March 1982
| office3             = 2nd [[Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad]]
| predecessor3        = [[Shah Abdul Hamid]]
| successor3          = [[Abdul Malek Ukil]]
| deputy3             = [[Mohammad Baitullah]]
| termend3            = 26 January 1974
| termstart3          = 7 April 1973
| office4			  = 1st [[Deputy Speaker]] of the [[Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh]]
| termstart4		  = 10 April 1972
| termend4			  = 11 October 1972
| predecessor4		  = ''Post established''
| successor4		  = Mohammad Baitullah
| office5             = [[Member of Parliament (Bangladesh)|Member of Parliament]]
| termstart5          = 5 April 1991
| termend5            = 24 November 1995
| predecessor5        = [[Chowdhury Khurshid Alam]]
| successor5          = [[Abul Khair Bhuiyan]]
| constituency5       = [[Lakshmipur-2]]
| termstart6          = 7 March 1973
| termend6            = 6 November 1975
| predecessor6        = ''Position Established''
| successor6          = [[Mohammad Momin Ullah]]
| constituency6       = Noakhali-9
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1921|10|21|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Raipur Upazila|Raipur]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />(now [[Chittagong Division|Chittagong]], [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1999|11|12|1921|10|21|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
| party               = [[Bangladesh Awami League|Awami League]] <small>(Before 1980; 1996–1999)</small>
| otherparty          = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] <small>(1980–1996)</small>
| alma_mater          = [[University of Dhaka]]<br />[[Surendranath College]]
}}

'''Mohammad Mohammadullah'''{{efn|{{langx|bn|মোহাম্মদ মোহাম্মদুল্লাহ|Mohammad Mohammadullāh}} {{IPA|bn|ˈmoɦɑmmɔd ˈmoɦɑmmɔd̪ulːɑ|}}}} (21 October 1921 – 12 November 1999) was the third president of the People's Republic of [[Bangladesh]]. Mohammadullah became the Acting President on 24 December 1973, was elected president on 24 January 1974, and took oath of office on 27 January 1974. He remained President until 25 January 1975.

==Early life and education==

Mohammadullah was born in Saicha, [[Raipur]], [[Lakshmipur District|Lakshmipur]], on 21 October 1921.<ref>{{cite book |last=Iftikhar-ul-Awwal |chapter=Life Sketches: Lieutenant-Governors, Governors & Presidents |title=Hundred Years of Bangabhaban, 1905-2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBFuAAAAMAAJ |year=2006 |publisher=Press Wing Bangabhaban |isbn=978-984-32-1583-3 |page=344}}</ref> His father Munshi Abdul Wahab was a social worker. In 1943, he completed his secondary school certificate from [[Lakshmipur Adarsha Samad Government High School]]. Mohammadullah earned a bachelor's degree with honours in history from [[Dhaka University]] and obtained [[LLB]] degree from [[Surendranath Law College|Ripon College]] [[Kolkata]] and again from Dhaka University in the same year 1948. In 1950, he became a member of the Dhaka Bar. In 1964, he was enrolled in [[Dhaka High Court]] as an advocate.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Mohammadullah,_Mohammad |title=Mohammadullah, Mohammad |website=Banglapedia |access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref>

==Political career==
Mohammadullah was an active member of the East Pakistan [[Awami League]] from 1950.<ref name=":0" /> He had walked into the Awami League office in Nawabpur and told Sheikh Mujibur Rahman he would like to volunteer for Awami League and started working in office management.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Mujibur Rahman |first=Sheikh |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/840484565 |title=The unfinished memoirs |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-670-08546-0 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=210–211 |oclc=840484565}}</ref> In 1953, he was elected as office secretary of [[East Pakistan]] and held the same position till 1972 after being nominated by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He actively participated in the [[six point movement]] in 1966, for which he was jailed for a long time.
Mohammadullah was elected to the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly on the ticket of the Awami League in 1970.<ref name=":0" /> He was appointed as the political advisor to the Acting President [[Syed Nazrul Islam]] during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] in 1971.<ref name=":0" />

On 10 April 1972, he was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the [[Bangladesh Constituent Assembly]] ([[Ganoparishad]]) and the same year he became the acting [[Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad|Speaker]]. On 12 November 1972, he was elected Speaker. He was elected to the Member of the Parliament (JS) from the Raipur-Lakshmipur constituency, and was re-elected Speaker of the House again in 1973.

He became the Acting President of the Republic on 24 December 1973 and President on 24 January 1974.
In January 1975, the fourth amendment was passed which removed then President Mohammad Mohammadullah from office and made Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman president for a five-year term.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Liton |first1=Shakhawat |title=Did Gen Zia abolish Sangsad's power? |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/did-gen-zia-abolish-sangsads-power-35186 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref>

He was made Minister of Land Administration and Land Reforms in the Cabinet of [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] on 26 January 1975. He was appointed as the Vice President by collaborators of the [[Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman|Assassination of Sheikh Mujib]] in August 1975. Mohammadullah joined the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] (BNP) in 1980. He was appointed vice president by President [[Abdus Sattar (president)|Abdus Sattar]] in March 1982 but the tenure lasted just a day, because General [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]] took over the reins of administration of the country. Mohammadullah was elected a member of the parliament (JS) once again in 1991 on BNP ticket.<ref name=":0" />

==Death==
Mohammadullah died on 12 November 1999 at the age of 78. He was buried at [[Banani graveyard]] near Naval Headquarters.<ref name=":0" />

== Honours ==
* [[File:King Jigme Singye Investiture Medal 1974.gif|50px]] King Jigme Singye Investiture Medal ([[Kingdom of Bhutan]], received: 2 June 1974).<ref>[http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/315/1/Coronation.pdf Final Programmes for The Coronation and The Silver Jubilee Celebration]</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120614111038/http://www.bangabhaban.gov.bd/mohammadullah.html Biography of Mohammadullah] in bangabhaban.gov.bd

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