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Sir Ba U
SIR BA U (26 May 1887 - 9 November 1963) was the 2nd President of Union of Burma and a lawyer, High Court judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma (1948-1952), and President of Burma from...mehr sehenSIR BA U (26 May 1887 - 9 November 1963) was the 2nd President of Union of Burma and a lawyer, High Court judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma (1948-1952), and President of Burma from 16 March 1952 to 13 March 1957. He was a member of the Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League. Ba U served as a judge under British, Japanese and Burmese rule.
He was born in 1887 at Pathein in the Irrawaddy delta, son of U Poe Hla and Daw Nyunt. He passed university entry class from Ragoon Government High School. At 1907 he attended the University of Cambridge to study law. After graduation in 1912, he received his Bachelor of Laws. He was employed as a lawyer in Yangon between 1913 and 1921. In 1921 he became a district judge. He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma from 1948 to 1952. He was knighted in 1947.
In 1913 he married Daw Nyein, daughter of retired district judge Aung Zan, and they had two sons. Daw Nyein died in 1922. In 1923 he married Daw Aye, daughter of governor of Soe Pe. With her he had two sons and a daughter. Daw Aye died in 1941.
Sir Ba U died on 9 November 1963.weniger sehen