Tömür Dawamat (; zh, s=铁木尔·达瓦买提, p=Tiěmù'ěr Dáwǎmǎití; June 16, 1927 – December 19, 2018) was the chairman of the

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC: previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads ...

of the

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from 1985 to 1993. Tömür was an ethnic

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. He started his working career in May 1950 and later became the local leader from 1954 to 1964. He held a high position in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Revolution Committee from 1968 to 1979 and then became Chief of the People's Congress of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region before he took office as the chairman of Xinjiang in 1985. After his chairmanship, he was a member of the

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. Tömür Dawamat died on December 19, 2018, at the age of 91.

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