Ruler · 1930 – 2022

Shahabuddin Ahmed

Lived 1930 – 2022; politician. President of Bangladesh (Bangladesh), 1990 – 1991 and 1 more term.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1930 – 2022; 92 years
In office: 6 years; 2 reigns
Lines: 1; Bangladesh
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of Bangladesh

Bangladesh · the 12th and 14th of 22 dated reigns · 1971 – 2026

8 before

Abdus Sattar1981 – 1982

A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury1982 – 1983

Hussain Muhammad Ershad1983 – 1990

Shahabuddin Ahmed1990 – 1991

Abdur Rahman Biswas1991 – 1996

Shahabuddin Ahmed1996 – 2001

A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury2001 – 2002

Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar2002

Iajuddin Ahmed2002 – 2009

5 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1990 – 1991 · 1 year · came to it aged 60 · term 1 of 2

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

He resigned from the presidency on 9 October 1991 and the next day returned to his previous post of chief justice from which he eventually retired on 1 February 1995.

Reigned 1996 – 2001 · 5 years · came to it aged 66 · term 2 of 2

Came to it: elected
Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

Ahmed was elected president unopposed on 23 July 1996 after having been nominated by the Awami League government and sworn in on 9 October the same year.

He retired from office on 14 November 2001.

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