Huỳnh Tấn Phát
Huỳnh Tấn Phát was a South Vietnamese communist politician and revolutionary. He was a member of the First National Assembly, chairman of the Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, and, after unification, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam.
Huỳnh Tấn Phát 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.
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Huỳnh Tấn Phát 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 prime minister. From 1976 to 1982 he was a vice premier in Vietnam, and in 1982 he became a Vice President of the Council of State.
For his devotion to the revolution he was awarded the Order of Ho Chi Minh.
