Kabaka of Buganda, Ugandan President. He was the 35th Kabaka of Buganda from 1939 to 1969, and the 1st President of Uganda from 1963 to 1966. Born in Makindye, Kampala, he was the fifth son of Kabaka Daudi Cwa II. He attended King's College Budo before he went to England to complete his education at Magdalene College, Cambridge. After the death of his father in 1939, he was elected Kabaka by the Lukiiko at the age of 15 and was installed on November 25, 1939, but he reigned under a Council of Regents until he came of age at 18. In 1953, he attempted to have Buganda secede to retain the kingdom's independence from the Uganda Protectorate. British colonial governor Andrew Cohen then deposed him and ordered his exile to London. His forced departure made the Kabaka an instant martyr in the eyes of the Baganda, and the widespread backlash to this action forced the British government to restore Mutesa as under the 1955 Buganda Agreement. In 1962, Uganda became independent from Britain under the leadership of Milton Obote. Under the country's new constitution, the Kingdom of Buganda became a semi-autonomous part of a new Ugandan federation. Obote became Prime Minister, and on 4 October the following year, Mutesa was elected President in a session of Parliament, with the support of over two-thirds of the members. In 1966, facing a possible removal from office by factional infighting within his own party, Obote suspended the federal constitution and declared himself President of Uganda in February, deposing Mutesa. The Buganda regional Parliament passed a resolution three months later declaring that Buganda's incorporation into Uganda had ended with the suspension of the constitution, requesting the federal government to vacate the capital city, in Buganda. Obote responded with an armed attack upon the King's palace, sending Mutesa into exile to the United Kingdom. While in exile, he wrote an autobiography, The Desecration of My Kingdom. He died of suspected alcohol poisoning in his London flat in 1969. The death, identified by the British police as suicide, was viewed as an assassination by agents of the Obote regime.