Phạm Văn Đồng
| Phạm Văn Đồng | |
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Pham Van Dong
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| Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
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In office 2 July 1976 – 18 June 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Phạm Hùng |
| Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam | |
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In office 20 September 1955 – 2 July 1976 |
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| Preceded by | Hồ Chí Minh |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam | |
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In office 25 June 1947 – 20 September 1955 |
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| Member of the Politburo | |
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In office 1951–1987 |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office April 1954 – February 1961 |
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| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 16 August 1945 – March 1946 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 March 1906 Đức Tân village, Mộ Đức district, in Quang Ngai province, Indochina |
| Died | 29 April 2000 (aged 94) Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
| Nationality | Vietnamese |
| Political party | Communist Party of Vietnam |
| Awards |
 Gold Star Order
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Phạm Văn Đồng (
listen; 1 March 1906 – 29 April 2000) was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976 and, following unification, as Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1987 under the rule of Lê Duẩn and Nguyễn Văn Linh. He was considered one of Hồ Chí Minh's closest lieutenants.
According to an official report, Dong was born into a family of civil servants in Đức Tân village, Mộ Đức district, in Quang Ngai province on the central coast on 1 March 1906.
In 1925 at the age of 18, he joined fellow students to stage a school sit-in to mourn the death of the famous patriotic scholar Phan Chu Trinh. About this time he developed an interest in the Communist party and in the unification of Vietnam. In 1926, he traveled to Guangzhou in southern China to attend a training course run by Nguyen Ai Quoc (later to be known as Ho Chi Minh), before being admitted as a member of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, the predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).
In 1929, he worked for the revolutionary association in Saigon. In the same year, he was arrested, tried by the French colonial authorities and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served the term in Poulo Condor Island Prison until 1936 when he was released under the general amnesty granted by the government of the Popular Front in France after its recent electoral successes.
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