Background
Chaudhury was born on 26 March 1919 at Gahira village in Chittagong District.
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Fazlul Quader Chaudhury
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He graduated from Calcutta Presidency College and earned B.L degree from Calcutta University Law College.
Career
He was also the acting President of Pakistan from time to time when Ayub Khan left the country. Quader was preceded by Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan of Awami League. In 1947, Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry supported the United Bengal pact of Sarat Bose and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, but when Suhrawardy agreed to form Pakistan, he failed from presenting the matter to Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
In Ayub Khan’s cabinet he served in the Ministry of Agriculture and Works, the Ministry of Education and Information and the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare.
He facilitated the foundation of University of Chittagong, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Chittagong Medical College, Chittagong Marine Academy, Chittagong Marine Fisheries and the Polytechnic Institute. In 1973, after the independence of East Pakistan, he was jailed in Bangladesh by the Awami League government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for war crimes as collaborator of Pakistan Army during 1971.
He died in Dhaka Central Jail on July 17, 1973. Chaudhury"s elder son Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was a politician.
In October 2015, Supreme Court of Bangladesh upheld the death sentence awarded by international crime tribunal for the alleged crime committed by Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury during the Liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971.
The death sentence was executed on early hours of 22 November 2015 inside Dhaka Central Jail.
Membership
Chaudhury was elected member of the Pakistan National Assembly in 1962. He was elected member of the Bangladeshi Parliament six times.
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Political Party
Muslim League