Tömür Dawamat

{{Short description|Chinese politician (1927–2018)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Tömür Dawamat

| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|ug|تۆمۈر داۋامەت}}}}
{{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|铁木尔·达瓦买提}}}}

| image = 1964-11 1964年 左侧为新疆副主席铁木尔·达瓦买提.jpg

| imagesize =150px

| caption = Tömür Dawamat (left) in November 1964

|office = Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

|term_start = 27 March 1993

|term_end = 15 March 2003

| 1blankname = Chairman

| 1namedata = Qiao Shi
Li Peng

| office1 = Chairman of Xinjiang

| term_start1 = 1985

| term_end1 = 1993

| predecessor1 = Ismail Amat

| successor1 = Ablet Abdureshit

| office2 = Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional People's Congress

| term_start2 = 1979

| term_end2 = 1985

| predecessor2 = new position

| successor2 = Hamudun Niyaz

| office4 = Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Revolutionary Committee

| term_start4 = March 1964

| term_end4 = September 1968

| predecessor4 =

| successor4 =

| 1blankname4 = Chairman

| 1namedata4 = Saifuddin Azizi

| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|6|16}}{{Cite web |url=http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64093/64387/12094952.html |title=铁木尔·达瓦买提：贫困农民家庭走出的维吾尔族国家领导人|access-date=December 19, 2018 |archive-date=December 19, 2018|language=zh|website=cpc.people.com.cn|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219230304/http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64093/64387/12094952.html |url-status=dead }}

| birth_place = Toksun, Xinjiang, Republic of China

| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|12|19|1927|6|26}}

| death_place = Beijing, China

| parents =

| nationality = Chinese

| party = Chinese Communist Party

| resting_place = Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery

}}

{{Patronymic name|Tömür|Dawamat|his}}

Tömür Dawamat ({{langx|ug|تۆمۈر داۋامەت|Tömür Dawamet}}; {{lang-zh|s=铁木尔·达瓦买提|p=Tiěmù'ěr Dáwǎmǎití}}; June 16, 1927 – December 19, 2018) was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1985 to 1993.{{Cite web|url=http://www.xinjiang.gov.cn/10013/10031/10000/10904.htm|title=历任政府领导|accessdate=22 December 2023}}

Tömür was an ethnic Uyghur. He started his working career in May 1950 and later became the local leader from 1954 to 1964. He held a high position in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Revolution Committee from 1968 to 1979 and then became Chief of the People's Congress of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region before he took office as the chairman of Xinjiang in 1985. After his chairmanship, he was a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.{{Cite web|url=http://www.xinjiang.gov.cn/10013/10031/10000/2005/20037.htm|title=铁木尔·达瓦买提简历|accessdate=22 December 2023}}

Tömür Dawamat died on December 19, 2018, at the age of 91.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2753800 |title=铁木尔·达瓦买提同志逝世，享年92岁|website=The Paper|date=2018-12-19|access-date=2019-02-08}}