Huỳnh Tấn Phát

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This is a Vietnamese name; the family name is Huỳnh, but is often simplified as Huynh in English-language text. According to Vietnamese custom, this person properly should be referred to by the given name Phát.

Huỳnh Tấn Phát (1913 near Mỹ Tho – September 30, 1989 in Ho Chi Minh City) was a South Vietnamese politician and revolutionary. He joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1945. He became chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam on its formation in 1969. Upon the surrender of the South Vietnamese government on April 30, 1975, he became the first president of the North Vietnamese controlled Republic of South Vietnam. He held this post until July 2, 1976, when the country was reunified with the North, making him the only communist South Vietnamese president. In 1976-82 he was a vice premier in Vietnam, and in 1982 he became a vice president of the Council of State.

Preceded by President of the Republic of Vietnam Duong Van Minh

President of the Republic of South Vietnam 1975–1976

Succeeded by Position abolished upon reunification with North Vietnam to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam