Bùi Bằng Đoàn
Bùi Bằng Đoàn (Chữ Hán: 裴鵬摶, September 19, 1889 – April 13, 1955) was a Vietnamese politician. He led the League for the National Union of Vietnam (Hội Liên hiệp quốc dân Việt Nam/Liên Việt) 1946–1951 and was Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam.
Bùi Bằng Đoàn (裴鵬摶) | |
|---|---|
| 2nd Chairman of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam | |
| In office 9 November 1946 – 13 April 1955 | |
| President | Hồ Chí Minh |
| Preceded by | Nguyễn Văn Tố |
| Succeeded by | Tôn Đức Thắng |
| Member of the Council of State | |
| In office 2 March 1946 – 8 November 1946 | |
| President | Hồ Chí Minh |
| Special Inspector for the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam | |
| In office 6 January 1946 – 8 November 1946 | |
| President | Hồ Chí Minh |
| Minister of Justice of the Nguyễn dynasty | |
| In office 1933–1945 | |
| Monarch | Emperor Bảo Đại |
| Preceded by | Tôn Thất Đàn |
| Succeeded by | Trịnh Đình Thảo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 September 1889 Liên Bạt, Ứng Hòa, Hà Nội province, Tonkin, French Indochina |
| Died | 13 April 1955 (aged 65) Hanoi, Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
| Spouse | Đoàn Thị Đức |
| Children | Bùi Tín Bùi Nghĩa |
| Education | Trường Hậu bổ in Hanoi (Mandarin school) |
| Profession | Politician |
Bùi Bằng Đoàn started his political career as a mandarin working for the Confucian bureaucracy of the Southern dynasty in Tonkin, starting his career in 1913 as a district magistrate working up to become minister of justice for Annam in 1933. Following the August Revolution the chairman of the Indochinese Communist Party Hồ Chí Minh invited him to become a special inspector in the newly established government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam where he would later be elected to become a member of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on 6 January 1946.
Bùi Bằng Đoàn's son Bùi Tín, a senior Communist Party editor, defected to France in 1990.