Trần Phú (1 May 1904 in Tuy An District – 6 September 1931) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and the first general secretary of the

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, later renamed the

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Biography

Trần Phú was born on May 1, 1904, at An Thổ, phủ Tuy An, tỉnh Phú Yên (today xã An Dân, Tuy An District, Phú Yên Province) where his father, Tran Van Pho, was a teacher. His father was born at the village of Tùng Sinh, now part of Tùng Ảnh commune,

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. Trần Phú graduated ''thành chung'' (general qualification) in 1922 and in 1925 he joined Hội Phục Việt (later renamed Tân Việt Cách mạng Đảng) in

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), China, to arrange the merger of his organization with the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League. In 1927, he went to the

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and studied at the

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. In 1928, he attended the sixth session of

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. On 11 October 1929, the court of Nam triều in Nghệ An conducted the trial in absentia of some members of the

; Trần Phú was one of those accused. 90 Thợ Nhuộm

April 1930, he came back to Vietnam and joined the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam. He was given the work of editing ''Theses on the bourgeois revolution of civil rights''. On 19 April 1931, he was arrested by the French. He was executed on 6 September 1931.

References

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