by Ezzat Amier
Tun Dr. Ismail Abdul Rahman (4 November 1915 – 2 August 1973) was a Malaysian politician from the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). He held several Malaysian ministerial posts and was appointed as
the second Deputy Prime Minister in 1970 by then Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak. Three years later, Tun Dr Ismail died in office due
to a heart attack. Ismail has been called "the man who saved
Malaysia" for his actions as Home Minister after the May 13 Incident of racial rioting in 1969. Ismail was born on 7 November 1915 in Johor Bahru, Johor. He was the son of
Dato' Abdul Rahman bin Yassin, who was of Buginese descent. Dato Abdul Rahman
was the first President of the Dewan Negara (Senate) of the Parliament of Malaysia, and also the first chairman of Malayan Banking.
His maternal grandfather was Haji Mohamed Salleh bin
Abdullah, an
ethnic Chinese convert to Islam and former State Treasurer of Johor. After Zahara binte Abu Bakar, Abdul
Rahman's wife and Ismail's mother, died in 1936, Abdul Rahman married Kamariah,
the sister of Dato Onn Ja'afar, the Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Johor. The
remarriage was encouraged by Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, who sought to
unite the Johor aristocracy by blood. Abdul Rahman himself almost became Menteri Besar according to
Ismail, but failed because he "refused to indulge in intrigues".
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