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Simon Makwac Mayen (born 1922) was a Sudanese politician.

Simon was born in Nasir in 1922. [1] He studied at the American Mission E.V. School in Nasir and the Nugent Church Missionary Society School in Loka. [1] In 1948 he began teaching in the American Mission Schools. [1]

In the 1953 Sudanese parliamentary election he was elected to the House of Representatives from the Pibor and Eastern Nuer constituency, standing as a National Unionist Party candidate. [1] [2] [3] Whilst he had been elected as a NUP candidate, he announced his membership in the Liberal Party before the opening of the new parliament. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e The Diplomatic Press Sudan Trade Directory: Including Classified Trade Index. Diplomatic Press and Publishing Company. 1957. p. 161.
  2. ^ Elwyn James Blattner; James Elwyn Blattner (1955). Who's who in U.A.R and the Near East. Paul Barbey Press. p. 97.
  3. ^ Tim Niblock (1 August 1987). Class and Power in Sudan: The Dynamics of Sudanese Politics, 1898–1985. SUNY Press. p. 74. ISBN  978-0-88706-481-4.