Andrew Wong

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This article is about a person of Hong Kong origin. The surname of the person is Wong.

Andrew Wong
President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
In office 11 October 1995 – 30 June 1997
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor	Chris Patten
Preceded by	John Joseph Swaine
Succeeded by	Rita Fan

Andrew WONG Wang Fat OBE, JP, (Chinese name: 黃宏發; born December 11, 1943) was the last president of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong during British rule. He was the only person of Chinese ethnicity to have served the position during British rule.

Andrew Wong was born in Shanghai, Republic of China. He attended Wah Yan College, a very eminent all male Jesuit secondary school in Hong Kong, after which he continued his tertiary education at the University of Hong Kong, Syracuse University in the United States and completed an MPhil at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the United Kingdom. Wong is better known among Hongkongers by the nickname "Uncle Fat" (Chinese: "發叔").

First elected into the Legislative Council in 1985, Wong was elected by his fellow members in the Council to be the Council's President in 1995. He held the position until June 30, 1997, when the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China.

He served in the Provisional Legislative Council from 1997 to 1998, and was re-elected into the Legislative Council in 1998 and in 2000 after the transfer of sovereignty. He lost his seat at the Legislative Council elections on September 12, 2004.

Wong served in the Sha Tin District Board from 1981 to 1991. He was lecturer in the Department of Government and Public Administration of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Preceded by new constituency	Member of the Legislative Council (New Territories East) 1985–1991	Succeeded by constituency redrawn
Preceded by new constituency	Member of the Legislative Council (New Territories East) 1991–1995	Succeeded by constituency redrawn
Preceded by new constituency	Member of the Legislative Council (New Territories South-East) 1991–1995	Succeeded by constituency redrawn
Preceded by new creation	Member of the Provisional Legislative Council 1996–1998	Succeeded by replaced by the Legislative Council
Preceded by John Joseph Swaine	President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong 1995–1997	Succeeded by Rita Fan (President of the Provisional Legislative Council)
Preceded by new constituency	Member of the Legislative Council (New Territories East) 1998–2004	Succeeded by not applicable (multi-member constituency)