Background
He born in Hoyang. Shensi, China in 1884.
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Lin-fu Ma
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Mr. Ma was sent to Japan to study on a government scholarship and graduated from the Meiji University.
Career
Lin-fu Ma participated in the 1911 Revolution and represented Shensi at the Provincial Delegates' Congress at Nanking to draft the provisional constitution. Upon establishment of the Republic, he founded the Northwestern University. When the Chin Kuo Chun (National Pacification Army) was organized under the command of Yu Yu-jen to campaign against Yuan Shih-kai, he served in the Army in various responsible positions and was concurrently director of civil affairs of the Army Headquarters. Then he was elected president of the Shensi Provincial Assembly in 1921.
Mr. Ma was a Commissioner of Education of Shensi, China in 1924, superintendent of the Tungkwan Customs in 1926. During the Northern Punitive Expedition of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army in 1927, he was appointed by Gen. Liu Chen-hua chief counsellor to his Army. After that Mr. Ma served in the same capacity, when General Liu later became Commander-in-Chief of the 11th Route Revolutionary Army and Banditsuppression Commissioner for the border regions of Shensi, Honan and Shansi. He was also appointed member of the National Economic Council in 1931, member of the Anhwei Provincial Government and concurrently Commissioner of Civil Affairs and for a time acting Chairman of Anhwei and author of several books on economics and industrial policy.
