3rd Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the People's Action Party
In office 20 October 1957 – 8 January 1981
Preceded by
Tan Chong Kim
Succeeded by
Ong Teng Cheong
1st Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the People's Action Party
In office 21 November 1954 – 13 August 1957
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Tan Chong Kim
Personal details
Born
(1921-12-10)10 December 1921 Batu Gajah, Perak, Federated Malay States, British Malaya, (now Malaysia)
Died
3 February 2012(2012-02-03) (aged 90) Singapore
Resting place
Mandai Crematorium and Columbarium
Political party
People's Action Party
Spouse
Florence Yeapp Sui Phek
(m. 1962; died 2004)
Children
Toh Ai Chu (adopted) (died 2009)
Alma mater
Raffles College University of London National Institute for Medical Research
In this Chinese name, the family name is Toh.
Toh Chin ChyeDUNU (Chinese: 杜进才; pinyin: Dù Jìncái; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tō͘ Chìn-châi; 10 December 1921 – 3 February 2012) was a Singaporean statesman and academic who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1959 and 1968. Toh is widely recognised as one of the founding fathers of Singapore. He was also one of the founders of the People's Action Party (PAP), which has governed the country continuously since independence.
Toh was a prominent member of the country's first generation of political leaders after Singapore became independent in 1965. He had served as Deputy Prime Minister between 1959 and 1968, Minister for Science and Technology between 1968 and 1975, and Minister for Health between 1975 and 1981.
He had also served as Chairman of the People's Action Party between 1954 and 1981, Leader of the House between 1959 and 1968, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore) between 1968 and 1975.
After Toh had resigned from the Cabinet in 1981, he continued to serve as a Member of Parliament (MP) on the backbenches.
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licensed local doctors. During the late 1960s, then-Deputy Prime Minister TohChinChye, a former academic at the University of Singapore, made local headlines...
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Yew won by a mere 1 vote, that was voted by the then party Chairman TohChinChye. On 12 November 1954, Lee, together with a group of fellow English-educated...
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and Kampong Glam constituencies. It was then won by TohChinChye of the People's Action Party. Toh will remain the Member of Parliament of the constituency...
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