A little bit of Selangor history

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

malaysiatoday - [...] Tengku Musa’eddin ruled from 1942 to 1945 as Sultan Ghiathuddin Riayat Shah after which Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah was given back the throne when the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Tengku Musa’eddin was then sent into exile in the Cocos Islands but was allowed to come home ten years later where he died in Kelang in 1955 without leaving any heirs.

Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah became the Second Agong in 1960 and died that same year after which his son, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, became the Eighth Sultan of Selangor. Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, the present Sultan of Selangor, is the Ninth Sultan of Selangor.

Over the last 40 years, Selangor has had 14 Chief Ministers (Menteri Besar), seven appointed and seven elected.

The seven appointed Chief Ministers are:

1. Dato’ Hamzah Bin Abdullah (1948-1949)
2. Raja Sir Tun Uda Al-Haj Bin Raja Mohamad (1949-1953 and 1954-1955)
3. Dato’ Othman Bin Mohamad (1953-1954)
4. Tun Dr Abdul Aziz Bin Hj Abdul Majid (1955-1956)
5. Tuan Muhammad Ismail Bin Abdul Latiff (1956-1958)
6. Tan Sri Abdul Jamil Bin Abdul Rais (1958-1959)
7. Dato Abu Bakar Bin Baginda (1959-1964)

The seven elected Chief Ministers are:

1. Dato’ Seri Hj Harun Bin Idris (1964-1976)
2. Dato Haji Hormat Bin Rafei (1976-1982)
3. Tan Sri Dato Hj Ahmad Razali Bin Haji Mohd Ali (1982-1986)
4. Tan Sri Dato Haji Muhammad Bin Haji Mohamad Taib (1986-1997)
5. Dato Seri (Dr) Haji Abu Hassan Bin Haji Omar (1997-2000)
6. Dato Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Bin Toyo (2000-2008)
7. Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim (2008- )... selanjutnya.