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Tun Tan: Advocate for a unifiedand politically unitedMalaya |
TUN Tan Cheng Lock (1883-1960) became founding president of the MCA in 1949. Although he was 66 when elected to the position, Tun Tan was regarded as the only man able to bring the Malayan Chinese together in perhaps their most trying time.
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