Tang Hualong (1874 – September 1, 1918) was the education minister from 1914 to 1915 and the interior minister in 1917 in the Republic of China.

Biography

Tang Hualong was born in 1874. A prominent member of the

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of China, Tang served in the government of

Xu Shichang Xu Shichang (Hsu Shih-chang; ; courtesy name: Juren (Chu-jen; 菊人); October 20, 1855 – June 5, 1939) was the President of the Republic of China, in Beijing, from 10 October 1918 to 2 June 1922. The only permanent president of the Beiyang ...

. He was assassinated on September 1, 1918 in

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, Canada by a local Chinese barber named Wong Chun (1886–1918), who later killed himself.

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