1. Name: Hashim bin Awang
2. Occupation: Politician
3. Date and place of birth: July 14, 1915, Tasek Gelugor, Province Wellesley
4. Education:
- Bukit Mertajam High School
5. Contributions:
- Worked at the Drainage and Irrigation Department
- Started own business
- Served in S.S.V.F. (World War 2)
- Imprisoned by the Japanese, suspected as British spy
- Attended Malay National Congress, Kuala Lumpur
- Chairman, UMNO Province Wellesley
- Established companies; Federal Transport Service Co. Ltd. (1949), Mechanical Farming Syndicate (1951), and United Canned Food Co. (1953)
- Won North of Province Wellesley seat at the Settlement Elections (February 1955)
- Member, Settlement Council
- Member, Settlement Development Board
- Member, Rural District Council
- Member, Education Board
- Member, R.I.D.A. Central Authority
- Member, Agricultural Board
- Member, Circle War Executive Committee
- Chairman & Board of Director, Utusan Melayu Press Ltd., Singapore
- Managing Director, Federal Transport Service Co. Ltd.
- Director, United Canned Food Co. Ltd.
- Only Alliance candidate unopposed in Federal Elections (1955)
- Member, UMNO Malaya Executive
- Committee Member, Penang Rotary Club (1956)
- Chairman, Committee for Agriculture and Fishery, Penang
- Chairman, Settlement Development Board (1956)
- Elected Settlement Representative to Rubber Replanting Board of Administrators
- Represented Malaya to World Scout jamboree in Australia (1934-1935)
- Invited to the United States on a Leader Grant (1956-1957)
- Nominated as a member of the Senate Federation of Malaya by the Penang State Assembly
6. Honours and Awards:
- Justice of Peace
Source:
Victor J. Morais (Ed.) (1959). The Leaders of Malaya and Who’s Who 1959-1960 . Singapore: Fisher
