Phan Khắc Sửu

In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Phan. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Suu.

Phan Khắc Sửu (1893–1970) was Head of State of South Vietnam from 1964–65.[1][2]

Biography

He was a trained agricultural engineer and was a founding member of the Cao Đài religion. He was a member of Emperor Bảo Đại’s political cabinet. Under President Ngô Đình Diệm’s rule, he was briefly jailed for mild dissidence but then released early when Diệm was assassinated. In the South Vietnamese presidential election, 1967, Phan finished third with 513,374 votes (10.8%).[3][4]

References

  1. Công Luận Nguyễn, Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier 2012 "Phan Huy Quát, the premier, and Phan Khắc Sửu, the chief of state, the two respectable national celebrities, failed to restore national stability and resigned, surrendering ruling power to a military junta."
  2. Robert Trando Letters of a Vietnamese Émigre - 2010 -Page 91 "Dr. Quát became premier minister under Chief of State Phan-Khắc Sửu. Anyhow, very soon an irremediable rift arose between the two due to the difficult demands of the separatist southerner Sửu."
  3. Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p331 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
  4. Ngọc Huy Nguŷẽn Political parties in Vietnam 197? - Page 15 "Party founded by former Chief of State Phan Khắc Sửu with Mr. Nguyễn Thành Vinh as Secretary General."
Political offices
Preceded by
Nguyễn Khánh
President of the Republic of Vietnam
1964 1965
Succeeded by
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu


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