Leaders of South Vietnam
This is a list of leaders of South Vietnam, since the establishment of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina in 1946, and the division of Vietnam in 1954 until the fall of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975, and the reunification of Vietnam in 1976.
Heads of state
Chiefs of the State of Vietnam (1949–1955)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term of office | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 | 
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Bảo Đại (1912–1997) |
13 June 1949 | 30 April 1955 | 5 years, 321 days | Independent |
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Ngô Đình Diệm (1901–1963) |
30 April 1955 | 26 October 1955 | 179 days | Can Lao | |
Presidents of the First Republic of Vietnam (1955–1963)
| Number | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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Ngô Đình Diệm (1901–1963) |
26 October 1955 | 2 November 1963 (assassinated.) | Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party |
Prime Minister of South Vietnam
| No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term of office | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| Prime Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina (1946–1948) | |||||||
| 1 | 
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Nguyễn Văn Thinh (1888–1946) |
1 June 1946 | 10 November 1946 | 162 days | Cochinchinese Democratic Party | |
| 2 | Lê Văn Hoạch (1896–1978) |
29 November 1946 | 29 September 1947 | 304 days | Independent | ||
| 3 | Nguyễn Văn Xuân (1892–1989) |
8 October 1947 | 27 May 1948 | 232 days | Military | ||
| Prime Ministers of the Provisional Central Government (1948–1949) | |||||||
| 3 | Nguyễn Văn Xuân (1892–1989) |
27 May 1948 | 14 June 1949 | 1 year, 18 days | Military | ||
| Prime Ministers of the State of Vietnam (1949–1955) | |||||||
| 1 |
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Bảo Đại (1912–1997) |
14 June 1949 | 21 January 1950 | 221 days | Independent | |
| 2 | Nguyễn Phan Long (1889–1960) |
21 January 1950 | 27 April 1950 | 96 days | Constitutional Party | ||
| 3 | Trần Văn Hữu (1896–1984) |
6 May 1950 | 6 June 1952 | 2 years, 31 days | Independent | ||
| 4 | 
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Nguyễn Văn Tâm (1893–1990) |
6 June 1952 | 17 December 1953 | 1 year, 194 days | Nationalist Party | |
| 5 | Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc (1914–1990) |
11 January 1954 | 16 June 1954 | 156 days | Independent | ||
| 6 |
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Ngô Đình Diệm (1901–1963) |
16 June 1954 | 26 October 1955 | 1 year, 132 days | Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party | |
| Prime Ministers of the Republic of Vietnam (1955–1975) | |||||||
| Abolished (26 October 1955 – 4 November 1963) | |||||||
| 1 | Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908–1976) |
4 November 1963 | 28 February 1964 | 116 days | Independent | ||
| 2 | 
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Nguyễn Khánh (1927–2013) |
28 February 1964 | 27 August 1964 | 181 days | Military | |
| Nguyễn Xuân Oánh (1921–2003) Acting |
29 August 1964 | 3 September 1964 | 5 days | Independent | |||
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Nguyễn Khánh (1927–2013) |
3 September 1964 | 4 November 1964 | 62 days | Military | |
| 3 | Trần Văn Hương (1903–1982) |
4 November 1964 | 27 January 1965 | 84 days | Independent | ||
| Nguyễn Xuân Oánh (1921–2003) Acting |
27 January 1965 | 15 February 1965 | 19 days | Independent | |||
| 4 | 
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Phan Huy Quát (1908–1979) |
16 February 1965 | 5 June 1965 | 109 days | Nationalist Party | |
| 5 | 
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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930–2011) |
14 June 1965 | 1 September 1967 | 2 years, 48 days | Military | |
| 6 | Nguyễn Văn Lộc (1922–1992) |
1 November 1967 | 17 May 1968 | 290 days | Military | ||
| (3) | Trần Văn Hương (1903–1982) |
28 May 1968 | 22 August 1969 | 1 year, 86 days | Independent National Social Democratic Front | ||
| 7 | Trần Thiện Khiêm (1925–2021) |
22 August 1969 | 5 April 1975 | 5 years, 226 days | National Social Democratic Front | ||
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Nguyễn Bá Cẩn (1930–2009) |
5 April 1975 | 25 April 1975 | 20 days | Democratic Party | |
| 9 | Vũ Văn Mẫu (1914–1998) |
28 April 1975 | 30 April 1975 | 2 days | Forces for National Reconciliation | ||
Leaders Of South Vietnam Media
Office of the President of the Republic of Vietnam in Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon)
Chân dung vị vua cuối cùng của Việt Nam, Bảo Đại
President NGO-DINH-DIEM of the Republic of Viet-Nam.
Mr. Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Secretary of State for Economics.
Portrait of Major General Dương Văn Minh, from magazine Vietnam Fights and Builds, No.1, July 1964
The flag of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces. Used from 1955 to 1975.
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Portrait of Major General Dương Văn Minh, from magazine Vietnam Fights and Builds, No.1, July 1964
Portrait of Phan Khắc Sửu, from Vietnam Fights and Builds, No.2, August 1964.
