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Office of the President of the Republic of Vietnam in Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). This is a list of leaders of South Vietnam, since the establishment of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina in 1946, and the division of Vietnam in 1954 until the fall of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975, and the reunification of Vietnam in 1976.
Ngô Đình Diệm (/ d j ɛ m /, [3] / ˈ j iː ə m / or / z iː m /; Vietnamese: [ŋō ɗìn jîəmˀ] ⓘ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of the Republic of Vietnam from 1955 until his capture and ...
Communist Party of Vietnam: President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; 5 Lê Đức Anh (1920–2019) 22 September 1992 24 September 1997 5 years, 2 days Communist Party of Vietnam: 6 Trần Đức Lương (born 1937) 24 September 1997 27 June 2006 8 years, 276 days Communist Party of Vietnam: 7 Nguyễn Minh Triết (born 1942) 27 June 2006
1954 - Vietnam is split into North and South at the Geneva conference. 1956 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem begins campaign against political dissidents. Conflict between the two rival ...
Hồ Chí Minh, the first president, became president in 1945 after Vietnam's declaration of independence. Tô Lâm is the shortest-serving president, with 152 days (from May 22, 2024 to October 21, 2024) if not counting interim presidents. Hồ Chí Minh had the longest time as president, with 24 years from 1945 to his death in 1969.
Communist Party of Vietnam: 4 Đỗ Mười (1917–2018) 22 June 1988 8 August 1991 3 years, 47 days Communist Party of Vietnam: 5 Võ Văn Kiệt (1922–2008) 8 August 1991 24 September 1992 1 year, 47 days Communist Party of Vietnam: Prime Minister of Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (5) Võ Văn Kiệt (1922–2008) 24 ...
On 24 October 1956 the South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm officially abolished the three region system as the regions were divided into smaller regions in South Vietnam. [275] At the time, Diệm enacted a reform of the administrative divisions system of the Republic of Vietnam in the form of Decree 147a/NV. [275]
In November 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) were deposed by a group of CIA-backed Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with Diệm's handling of the Buddhist crisis and the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong threat to South Vietnam. In ...