Wan Mohamed bin Wan Teh was the 7th

Menteri Besar of Perak The Menteri Besar of Perak or First Minister of Perak is the head of government in the Malaysian state of Perak. According to convention, the Menteri Besar is the leader of the majority party or largest coalition party of the Perak State Legislati ...

from 1 October 1977 to 1 March 1983. He was also the Member of

Perak State Legislative Assembly The Perak State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Negeri Perak) is the unicameral state legislature of the Malaysian state of Perak. It is composed of 59 members representing single-member constituencies throughout the state. Elections are held no ...

for Grik from 1969 to 1974, Temengor from 1974 to 1978 and Kenering from 1978 to 1983.

Personal life

Wan Mohammed was born to Haji Wan Teh and Hajah Kalsom in 1929 at Kampung Ulu Kenderong,

Gerik Gerik ( Jawi: ڬريق; ; Tamil: கிரிக் ; alternate spelling: Grik) is a mukim and the district capital of Hulu Perak District, Perak, Malaysia. The town is also known as Rest Town owing to its strategic location next to East-West ...

Perak Perak () is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, and Selangor to the south. Thailand's ...

. His brother Wan Hashim Wan Teh was the

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for

from 2004 to 2008

Politics

When Wan Mohammed was 17 years old, he had joined some assemblies of

Malayan Union The Malayan Union was a union of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca. It was the successor to British Malaya and was conceived to unify the Malay Peninsula under a single government to simplify administratio ...

Kuala Kangsar The Kuala Kangsar (Perak Malay: ''Kole Kangso'') is the royal town of Perak, Malaysia. It is located at the downstream of Kangsar River where it joins the Perak River, approximately northwest of Ipoh, Perak's capital, and southeast of ...

. He joined

UMNO The United Malays National Organisation (Malay: ; Jawi: ; abbreviated UMNO () or less commonly PEKEMBAR), is a nationalist right-wing political party in Malaysia. As the oldest continuous national political party within Malaysia (since its in ...

in 1951 and joined the Kuala Kangsar branch. Wan Mohammed was chosen as the candidate to participate in the

1969 Malaysian general election General elections were held in Malaysia on Saturday, 10 May 1969, although voting was postponed until between 6 June and 4 July 1970 in Sabah and Sarawak. This election marked the first parliamentary election held in Sabah and Sarawak after the ...

for the Grik state seat. He won the seat and was unopposed in the

1974 Malaysian general election General elections were held in Malaysia between Saturday, 24 August and Saturday, 14 September 1974.Nohlen ''et al''., p152 Voting took place in all 154 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dew ...

. He was chosen as an EXCO after that. In 1977, Ghazali Jawi resigned from the post of Menteri Besar of Perak on the advice of

Hussein Onn Tun Hussein bin Dato' Onn ( ms, حسين بن عون, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; 12 February 1922 – 29 May 1990) was a Malaysian lawyer and politician who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Malaysia from the death of his predece ...

, President of

Barisan Nasional The National Front ( ms, Barisan Nasional; abbrev: BN) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1973 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties. It is also the third largest political coalition with 30 se ...

and

Prime Minister of Malaysia The prime minister of Malaysia ( ms, Perdana Menteri Malaysia; ms, ڤردان منتري مليسيا, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset) is the head of government of Malaysia. The prime minister directs the executive branch of the fede ...

. Wan Mohamed was subsequently appointed as the Menteri Besar of Perak to replace Ghazali Jawi. His first mission was to fix the relationship between UMNO and the royal family, if not many problems cannot be solved as the Sultan has controls over Islamic issues and the land in Perak. There are a few people from Orang-Orang Besar Perak had influenced Sultan Idris Shah that Wan Mohammed was a descent of Pattani. Not long after that, he was forced to quit as the Menteri Besar of Perak.

Health

Wan Mohammed died of lung cancer on 25 August 1993 in his own house.Asiaweek: Volume 19, Issues 27-51

References

{{reflist Malaysian Muslims People from Perak United Malays National Organisation politicians Members of the Perak State Legislative Assembly Malaysian people of Malay descent 1929 births 1993 deaths