Dr Maung Maung was a well-known writer and legal scholar in Myanmar, who served as the seventh president of Burma from 19 August 1988 to 18 September 1988.
16 Facts About Maung Maung
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Maung Maung was born on 31 January 1925 in Mandalay, British Burma.
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Maung Maung was the only son amongst seven children of lawyer U Sint and his wife Daw Aye Tin.
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Maung Maung completed his comprehensive education at the Buddhist Thathana Anglo-Vernacular School at the tender age of 14.
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Maung Maung applied for admission to study a two-year programme in science at Mandalay Intermediate College, which he eventually completed in 1943.
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At this point, Maung began his journalistic career as an English-language correspondent for the Rangoon Review.
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Maung Maung enrolled in the University of London's external law degree programme, which earned him a Bachelor of Laws in 1953.
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In 1960, Maung and his family temporarily relocated to the United States, where he was a Visiting Lecturer in Political Science and Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University.
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Maung Maung served as the Deputy Attorney-General and was part of the Burma delegation to the 14th session of the United Nations General Assembly in General Ne Win's caretaker government from 1958 to 1960.
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Again serving in Ne Win's military junta, Maung Maung became Chief Justice and, although a civilian, was a prominent member of the central committee of the Burma Socialist Programme Party.
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Maung Maung played a large part in shaping the 1974 constitution and subsequent changes to the judicial system.
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Maung Maung had seven children with his wife, Daw Khin Myint.
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Maung Maung had served as Myanmar's Ambassador to South Africa from 1999 to 2001 and Myanmar's Ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003.
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Maung Maung was bestowed the Thiri Pyan-chi title by the Government of Myanmar in 2012.
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Maung Maung previously served as the deputy director-general of the International Organisations and Economic Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under President Thein Sein's administration from 2011 to 2016.
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Maung Maung accepted on behalf of her father Maung as one of many recipients of posthumous titles awarded by Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing in 2023.