Tömür Dawamat

Tömür Dawamat
تۆمۈر داۋامەت 铁木尔·达瓦买提
Tömür Dawamat (left) in November 1964
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office 27 March 1993 – 15 March 2003
Chairman	Qiao Shi Li Peng
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
In office 1985–1993
Preceded by	Ismail Amat
Succeeded by	Ablet Abdureshit
Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional People's Congress
In office 1979–1985
Preceded by	new position
Succeeded by	Hamudun Niyaz
Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Revolutionary Committee
In office March 1964 – September 1968
Chairman	Saifuddin Azizi
Personal details
Born	(1927-06-16)June 16, 1927 Toksun, Xinjiang, Republic of China
Died	December 19, 2018(2018-12-19) (aged 91) Beijing, China
Resting place	Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
Political party	Chinese Communist Party

This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by his given name, Tömür, and not as Dawamat.

Tömür Dawamat (Uyghur: تۆمۈر داۋامەت, romanized: Tömür Dawamet; Chinese: 铁木尔·达瓦买提; pinyin: Tiěmù'ěr Dáwǎmǎití; June 16, 1927 – December 19, 2018) was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1985 to 1993.

Tömür was an ethnic Uyghur. 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 Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

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