Justice Abul Fazal Mohammad 'AFM' Ahsanuddin Chowdhury (1 July 1915-30 August 2001) was the ninth President of Bangladesh.
Background:
Chowdhury had graduated and obtained his LL.B. Degree from Dhaka University. He joined the Bengal Civil Service (judicial) in the year 1942, and subsequently served as district judge in Sylhet, Rangpur and Dhaka. He was appointed Justice of the Dhaka
High Court on 17.12.1968 by the then President of Pakistan Field marshal Ayub Khan and later a Justice of the Appellate Division of theSupreme Court on January 30, 1974. He retired from service on July 1, 1977.Politics:
Following a military coup d'état in March 1982 the army chief of staff Hossain Mohammad Ershad assumed power as the chief martial law administrator, and Justice Ahsanuddin Chowdhury was made President of Bangladesh on 27 March 1982, a position which he held till 10 December 1983.
Social and welfare institutions:
He was the chairman of Bangladesh Scouts, chairman of the management board and trustee board of Dhaka Child Hospital, chairman of National Foundation of Mental Health, chairman of the managing committee of Dhaka Law College, chairman of anjuman-i-mufidul Islam, and chairman of Dhaka High Court mazar committee. He died on 30 August 2001.