Nguyễn Hải Thần

Vietnamese political leader Nguyễn Hải ThầnNguyễn Hải Thần in 19471st Vice President of Democratic Republic of VietnamIn officeJanuary 1946 – July 1946PresidentHo Chi MinhPreceded byOffice establishedSucceeded byTôn Đức ThắngPresident of Vietnamese Provisional National GovernmentIn office28 August 1945 – 7 May 1946 Personal detailsBorn1869 (1869)Thường Tín, Hà Đông, Tonkin (now Hanoi)Died1959 (aged 89–90) British Hong KongParty Vietnamese Revolutionary LeagueSignature Nguyễn Hải Thần (阮海臣; born Nguyễn Văn Thắng in Thường Tín District, Hà Đông Province, circa 1869; died 1959; also known as Vũ Hải Thu[citation needed]) was a leader of the Việt Nam Cách mạng Đồng minh Hội (Vietnamese Revolutionary Alliance) and a political leader during the Vietnamese Revolution. He was also the first Vice President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam for less than a year before fleeing to China. Biography In 1905, he left Vietnam to study at military academies, first in Japan and then in China, as part of Phan Bội Châu's Đông Du (Travel to the East) movement. In 1912, he joined Châu's Vietnam Restoration League (Việt Nam Qu