Hilton Cheong-Leen

Hilton Cheong-Leen
CBE, JP
Hilton Cheong-Leen CBE, JP
張有興
	Cheong-Leen in the 1960s
Member of the Legislative Council
	In office; 1 May 1973 – 31 August 1979
Appointed by	Sir Murray MacLehose
Preceded by	H. J. C. Browne
Succeeded by	Wong Po-yan
	In office; 1 October 1985 – 30 September 1988
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Elsie Tu
Constituency	Urban Council
Chairman of the Urban Council
	In office; 1 April 1983 – 31 March 1986
Preceded by	A. de O. Sales
Succeeded by	H. M. G. Forsgate
Member of the Urban Council
	In office; 1 April 1957 – 31 March 1991
Preceded by	Woo Pak-chuen
Succeeded by	San Stephen Wong
Constituency	Wan Chai (1983–91)
Chairman of the Hong Kong Civic Association
	In office; 1968–2004
Preceded by	Woo Pak-chuen
Succeeded by	Lam Kwok-wah
Personal details
Born	6 August 1922; Georgetown, British Guiana (present-day Georgetown, Guyana)
Died	4 January 2022 (aged 99); Hong Kong
Political party	Hong Kong Civic Association
Spouses	; Pauline Chow (m. 1945⁠–⁠1979) ; Nancy Gan (m. 1988)
Children	Reginald Cheong-Leen; Susan Cheong-Leen; Franklin Cheong-Leen; Flora Cheong-Leen
Alma mater	Central High School ; La Salle College
Occupation	Businessman and politician
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Hilton Cheong-Leen, CBE, JP (Chinese: 張有興; 6 August 1922 – 4 January 2022) was a Hong Kong politician and businessman. He is the longest uninterrupted serving elected officeholder in Hong Kong history as an elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong for 34 years from 1957 to 1991. He was also the first Chinese chairman of the council from 1981 to 1986. He had been a long-time chairman of the Hong Kong Civic Association, one of the two quasi-opposition political groups in the post-war Urban Council. From 1973 to 1979, he was appointed unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. From 1985 to 1988, he was again among the first elected members of the Legislative Council through Urban Council constituency in the first Legislative Council election in 1985.