Wang Tso-jung (; 6 February 1919 – 30 July 2013) was a Taiwanese politician who served as President of the

Control Yuan The Control Yuan is the supervisory and auditory branch of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Prior to constitutional reforms in the 1990s, the Control Yuan, along with National Assembly (electoral college) and the Legislative ...

from 1996 to 1999. He earned a master's degree in economics from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

in the United States and taught at National Taiwan University. A longtime member of the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

, Wang was close to . Wang was awarded the

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in June 2013. He died of sepsis on 30 July 2013 at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, where he had undergone treatment for pneumonia. His eldest son Wang Nien-tsu became an engineer and entrepreneur.

Works

* 財經文存三編, China Times Publishing Co., 1989

References

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