Nguyễn Văn Xuân (; 3 April 1892 – 14 January 1989) was a Vietnamese general and politician who served as prime minister of
Cochinchina
Cochinchina or Cochin-China (, ; ; ; ; ) is a historical exonym and endonym, exonym for part of Vietnam, depending on the contexts, usually for Southern Vietnam. Sometimes it referred to the whole of Vietnam, but it was commonly used to refer t ...
from 1947 to 1948, then prime minister of the
Provisional Central Government of Vietnam from 5 June 1948 to 20 June 1949, during the
First Indochina War.
First Indochina War
On 1 April 1947, he was promoted to
brigadier general (two-star general, entry-level for a general officer in the French army ranking system) of colonial troops, a local army with French commanding officers. After the
First Indochina War, he went into exile in France. On 14 January 1989, he died in
Nice at the age of 96.
Le Général Nguyen Van Xuan
, Bulletin de l'ANAI, April–May–June 1989
See also
* State of Vietnam
References
Vietnamese politicians
Prime ministers of South Vietnam
1892 births
1989 deaths
Politicians from Ho Chi Minh City
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