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The role of Chamberlain became hereditary within the Dorji family and Gongzim Ugyen Dorji was succeeded in this position by his son Sonam Topgay Dorji. In turn, Sonam Topgay Dorji's eldest son Jigme Palden Dorji was appointed Chief Minister to his kinsman King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck in 1952.
Ugyen Dorji (Dzongkha: ཨོ་རྒྱན་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wylie: o rgyan rdo rje, 1855–1916) was a member of the elite Dorji family and an influential Bhutanese politician. He served as the closest adviser to Ugyen Wangchuck , the Penlop of Trongsa and later King of Bhutan .
Topgay was the son of Gongzim Ugyen Dorji, adviser to Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck both before and after the rise of the latter to the throne. Gongzim Ugyen Dorji had advised the future First King to mediate between the British and Tibet, [4]: 35 and later to allow the large-scale induction of Nepalis into Bhutan establishing friendly ties with British India.
The position of gongzim, held since 1907 by the Dorji family, was upgraded in 1958 to lonchen (prime minister) and was still in the hands of the Dorji. Jigme Dorji Wangchuck's reforms, however, although lessening the authority of the absolute monarchy, also curbed the traditional decentralization of political authority among regional leaders ...
During the early years of the Dorji family's prominence, members of the family served as gongzim (chief chamberlain, the top government post), [13] and their official residence was at the palatial Bhutan House. Kazi Ugyen Dorji settled the land and took advantage of the lucrative trade routes through Kalimpong, and by 1898 assumed the roles of ...
Lhendup Dorji was born to Gongzim Raja Sonam Topgay Dorji and Princess Rani Chuni Wangmo of Sikkim on October 6, 1935 at Bhutan House, Kalimpong, India. [citation needed] He studied at the St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling, at the Choate Prepatory School and then went to the United States attending Cornell University, which he graduated from in 1959.
Kinzang Dorji (born 1951) 1st time: 14 August 2002 30 August 2003 1 year, 16 days Independent — — (2) Jigme Thinley (born 1952) 2nd time: 30 August 2003 18 August 2004 354 days Independent — — (4) Yeshey Zimba (born 1952) 2nd time: 18 August 2004 5 September 2005 1 year, 18 days Independent — — (3) Sangay Ngedup (born 1953) 2nd time ...
Dasho Jigme Palden Dorji [citation needed] (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་དཔལ་ལྡན་རྡོ་རྗེ, 14 December 1919 [1] – 6 April 1964) [2] was a Bhutanese politician and member of the Dorji family. By marriage, he was also a member of the House of Wangchuck. [3]