Tengku Mansur or Tengku Mansoer (17 January 1897 - 6 October 1953) was the Wali Negara of

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, as part of the

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. He was also a founding figure and Chairman of

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(1917-1919).

Biography

Tengku Mansur was born in Tanjungbalai,

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, 17 January 1897. He was the son of Tengku Muhammad Adil (Tengku Babul) and Raden Ayu Sariah (originally from

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). Tengku Muhammad Adil and his brothers were known to be very vigorous in opposing and fighting the Dutch. Until in 1859 Tengku Muhammad Adil was banished by the Dutch to Buitenzorg ( Bogor) to stop his resistance. His father married four wives and had 12 children. Mansur was part of a noble family, as Sultan Saibon ( Sultan of Asahan) was his nephew. Mansur started his higher education at the ''Inlandsch Artsen School'' ( STOVIA) in

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in 1911. Mansur is noted as the only student with the title

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at that time. In the same class as Mansur (first year) was Abdoel Moenir Nasution. Their classmate in second year (entered 1910) was Ma'moer Al Rasjid Nasution. In third year (entered 1909) were Sjoeib Paroehoeman Harahap and Soeleman Hasiboean. He began to organise and joined nationalist youths and they founded the

organisation of which he was elected chairman (1917). He continued his studies at Leiden University in the

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. While studying in

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, he married a Dutch woman named Amalia Gezina Wempe (1893-1967). His wife later changed her name to Siti Akmal. From that marriage, Mansur was blessed with a pair of children. The first child was a daughter named Tengku Sariah who was born in Leiden, 14 January 1925 and died in Medan, 15 April 1994. The second son, Tengkoe Dr Adil Mansoer, was born in Leiden, 24 April 1927 and died in

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, 30 November 1979. After obtaining his medical degree in the Netherlands, Tengku Mansur worked as a surgeon in Medan. In November 1947, he was appointed Wali Negara of East Sumatra. Tengku Mansur died in

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on 6 October 1953.

Awards

His name is immortalised as a street name in

and the name of a public hospital in Tanjungbalai.

Bibliography

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References

{{Reflist Indonesian people of Malay descent United States of Indonesia People from Asahan Regency Indonesian physicians Indonesian politicians