Vũ Văn Mẫu
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- This is a Vietnamese name; the family name is Vũ, but is often simplified as Vu in English-language text. According to Vietnamese custom, this person properly should be referred to by the given name Mẫu.
Vũ Văn Mẫu (1914 - 1998) was the last Prime Minister of South Vietnam and served under President Dương Văn Minh.
Vũ Văn Mẫu was born in 1914 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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[edit] Education
He earned a doctorate in law from the University of Paris and practiced law in Hanoi. After Vietnam’s partition in 1954, he moved to Saigon with his family and joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Saigon, where he became the Dean of the Faculty. He was recognized as an expert in civil and historical law.
[edit] Law career
After several years as a professor he then became a local Saigon judge, rising through the ranks to become Judge of the Saigon Supreme Court. During his legal career, he wrote several publications, including the book “Vietnamese Civil Law”.
[edit] Political career
In the early 1970s, he was elected Senator of the Republic where he became a prominent national politician. In 1975, he became Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam under President Dương Văn Minh.
[edit] Exile
He died in Paris in 1998, aged 84.
| Preceded by Nguyen Ba Can |
Prime Minister of South Vietnam 1975 |
Succeeded by Phạm Văn Đồng as Prime Minister of Vietnam |
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