Su Nan-cheng

Su Nan-cheng 蘇南成
Mayor of Kaohsiung
In office 1985–1990
Preceded by	Hsu Shui-te
Succeeded by	Wu Den-yih
Mayor of Tainan
In office 1 February 1977 – 1 February 1985
Preceded by	Chang Li-tang
Succeeded by	Lin Wen-hsiung
Personal details
Born	14 January 1936 (1936-01-14) (age 78) Tainan, Taiwan, Empire of Japan
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang (1968 – 1972; 1976 – 1999)
Alma mater	National Cheng Kung University
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Accountant

Su Nan-cheng (Chinese: 蘇南成; pinyin: Sū Nánchéng), a Taiwanese politician, is a Senior Advisor to ROC President Chen Shui-bian. He was a mayor of Tainan, serving from 1977 to 1985, and an appointed mayor of Kaohsiung, serving from 1985 to 1990. He was the speaker of the ROC National Assembly in 1999. Su was in the Kuomintang and was part of the faction that supported the Taiwanese localization movement. He was expelled from the KMT twice: first in 1972 for violating a party resolution and running for Tainan City Mayor as an independent; second in 1999 for forwarding a term-extension amendment in the National Assembly against party orders.^[1] In 2003, Su openly supported DPP candidate Chen Shui-bian in the 2004 presidential election.^[2]

Tainan mayoralty

Su was elected the mayor of Tainan in 1976 as an independent candidate. In 1981, he was nominated by the Kuomintang to run again and was re-elected. He served from 1977 to 1985, until he was appointed the mayor of Kaohsiung. During his term as Tainan mayor, he was recognized by the Ramon Magsaysay Award.^[3] He ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Tainan in 2001 as an independent candidate, and was elected a city council member instead.^[4]

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• 重修台灣省通志 Ed. Liu Ning-yen. Taipei City: Taiwan Province Document Council (台灣省文獻委員會), 1994