Lê Phước Thọ | |
Birthname: | Lê Phước Thọ |
Nationality: | Vietnamese |
Birth Date: | 25 December 1927 |
Birth Place: | Tân Lộc, Thới Bình District, Cà Mau Province, French Indochina |
Death Place: | Cần Thơ, Vietnam |
Office: | Head of the Central Organisation Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam |
Term Start: | 7 July 1991 |
Term End: | 1 January 1996 |
Predecessor: | Nguyễn Đức Tâm |
Successor: | Nguyễn Văn An |
Office1: | Member of the 7th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam |
Term Start1: | 27 June 1991 |
Term End1: | 2 July 1996 |
Office2: | Member of the 6th–7th Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam |
Term Start2: | 18 December 1986 |
Term End2: | 2 July 1996 |
Office3: | Member of the 5th–7th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam |
Term Start3: | 27 June 1991 |
Term End3: | July 1996 |
Office4: | Alternate member of the 4th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam |
Term Start4: | 20 December 1976 |
Term End4: | 1 July 1996 |
Party: | Communist Party of Vietnam |
Lê Phước Thọ (25 December 1927 – 6 July 2023), commonly known as Sáu Hậu, was a Vietnamese politician. He was a member of the seventh electoral term of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, a member of the Secretariat for the sixth and seventh electoral term, a member of the Central Committee from the fifth to seventh electoral term. Moreover, he was an alternate of the Central Committee's fourth term. He served as the head of the Central Committee of Agriculture, the head of the Organisation Department, and secretary of Hậu Giang Provincial Party Committee.
Lê Phước joined the Communist Party of Vietnam, then known as the Indochinese Communist Party, in 1949. During his party and state activities, he was awarded the badges of 30, 40 and 45 years of party life. After retiring, he was awarded a 50-year party senior badge.
Lê Phước Thọ died at his home on 6 July 2023, at the age of 95.[1] [2]