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On 23 March 2015, Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore and co-founder of the People's Action Party, died at the age of 91 at 03:18 Singapore Standard Time (), after having been hospitalised at the Singapore General Hospital with severe pneumonia since 5 February that year.
Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ DK (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman, politician, and lawyer who served as the Minister Mentor between 2004 to 2011, Senior Minister between 1990 to 2004 and first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990.
Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) Occasional student after circa 1945 Prime minister (1959–1990) Tharman Shanmugaratnam (born 1957) BSc (Econ) 1981 President (2023–present) Saint Lucia: John Compton (1925–2007) LLB 1952 Premier (1964–1979) Prime minister (February–July 1979; 1982–1996) Taiwan: Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000)
In 1955, the Tanjong Pagar constituency was formed. It took over Sepoy Lines in 1976 and Anson in 1988. After Lee Kuan Yew had passed the premiership to Goh Chok Tong in 1990, the constituency was even merged into Tanjong Pagar GRC, and the legacy of the "Tanjong Pagar GRC" name continues to remain even after the death of Lee Kuan Yew in 2015. 1988 was also the last election of which Tanjong ...
Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, died on 23 March 2015. Lee had made it clear over the years that he did not want a monument solely to himself, and his will specified that his house at 38 Oxley Road was to be demolished. In a parliamentary statement [4] on 13 April 2015, his son Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong stated: Mr Lee was ...
After he was elected president of the Law Society of Singapore in 1986, he had a falling-out with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew over the Law Society's role in commenting on legislation. In the 1988 general election, Seow contested in Eunos GRC as a candidate of the opposition Workers' Party, against the governing People's Action Party. He lost ...
Lee Kuan Yew (Lee Kong Yau) 李光耀: 1923–2015: Singapore: Dabu, Guangdong: Founding father of modern Singapore; First Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959–1990, mother was a Peranakan: Lee Hsien Loong (Lee Sen Lung) 李顯龍 李显龙: 1952-Singapore: Dabu, Guangdong
Lee Kuan Yew [ edit ] On 12 November 1954, Lee, together with a group of fellow English-educated middle-class men whom he himself described as "beer-swilling bourgeois ", formed the 'socialist' People's Action Party (PAP) in an expedient alliance with the pro-communist trade unionists.