Huynh Tan Phat

Who was Huynh Tan Phat?

Huỳnh Tấn Phát was a South Vietnamese politician and revolutionary. He was a member of six National Assemblies of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, chairman of South Vietnam, and, after unification, Vice President of Vietnam.

He joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in March 1945, and began revolutionary activities in Saigon, whereupon he was appointed Deputy Director of Information and Press Committee for the South. When the French re-occupied Saigon after World War II, they had him arrested and sentenced to two years in prison. Upon his release he resumed his revolutionary activities and in 1949 was appointed commissioner UBKCHC south, and the District Commissioner UBKCHC for Saigon - Cholon.

He became chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam on its formation in 1969. Upon the surrender of the South Vietnamese government on 30 April 1975, the PRG became the nominal government of South Vietnam. He held this post until 2 July 1976, when the country was reunified with the North, making him the only communist South Vietnamese "president". From 1976 to 1982 he was a vice premier in Vietnam, and in 1982 he became a Vice President of the Council of State. He served in the