1. Dashiin Damba was a Mongolian politician who was the First Secretary of the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 1954 to 1958 during the brief period of collective leadership in the country after the death of Khorloogiin Choibalsan.
Dashiin Damba was born on 29 March 1908 in Daiching Zasag banner of Tusheet Khan.
Dashiin Damba joined the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League in 1924, and became a secretary at the district and provincial levels and on the Ulaanbaatar city committee.
Dashiin Damba joined the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in 1930, and graduated from the MPRP Higher Party School.
Dashiin Damba held the rank of commissar at the battalion, regiment, and division levels.
In 1938, Dashiin Damba was elected first secretary of the Omnogovi provincial MPRP committee.
Dashiin Damba became a candidate member of the MPRP Politburo in 1943, was reelected as a member of the Politburo at the 11th Congress in December 1947, and second secretary of the MPRP Central Committee from 1947 to 1954.
Dashiin Damba, who was a member of the presidium of the People's Great Khural, replaced Tsedenbal as general secretary at MPRP Central Committee plenum in April 1954, whose results were confirmed at the 12th MPRP Congress in November 1954.
Relations with China improved, especially after Dashiin Damba met personally with Mao Zedong in September 1956 in Beijing to discuss Chinese aid to Mongolia.
When relations between the two countries deteriorated a year later, Dashiin Damba would be accused of being "pro-Chinese".
Dashiin Damba supported giving the commission top-secret Interior Ministry files, but Tsedenbal was opposed.
Dashiin Damba tried to arrest Shirendev as an "imperialist spy" in 1957, but Damba persuaded him to drop the charges.
At a Central Committee plenum in November 1958, shortly after his re-election by the 13th MPRP Congress in March, Dashiin Damba was "relieved of his duties at his own request".
Dashiin Damba was demoted to second secretary, and replaced as first secretary by Tsedenbal.
Dashiin Damba was sent to work as the director of the Ikh-Uul District tractor station in Khovsgol Province.