Education
University of Yangon.
University of Yangon.
In this Burmese name, Mahn is an honorific. He was appointed president by Prime Minister U Nu in March 1957. Win Maung was an ethnic Karen born on 17 April 1916 in the Irrawaddy delta, son of Daw Tharya and U Shwe Yin.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Yangon University"s Judson College in 1937.
Between 1947 and 1956 he was variously Minister of Ministry of Mining and Labour, Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunication and Minister of the Ministry of Water, Air and Costal Ship. He was imprisoned between 1962 to 1967.