Lê Quang Đạo | |
Nationality: | Vietnamese |
Birth Date: | 8 August 1921 |
Birth Place: | Bắc Ninh Province, Indochina Northern Vietnam |
Death Place: | Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
Office: | Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam |
Term Start: | 19 April 1987 |
Term End: | 19 July 1992 |
Predecessor: | Nguyễn Hữu Thọ |
Successor: | Nông Đức Mạnh |
Office1: | Deputy Chairman of the Council of State of the National Assembly of Vietnam |
Term Start1: | 19 April 1987 |
Term End1: | 19 July 1992 |
Successor1: | Nguyễn Thị Định |
Military Blank1: | Branch |
Military Blank2: | Service years |
Military Data2: | 1948–1976 |
Military Blank3: | Rank |
Lê Quang Đạo (8 August 1921 – 24 July 1999) was a Vietnamese politician who was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1960 to 1991. Having served 28 years in the military, he was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1959 and Lieutenant General in 1974. He was Chairman of the National Assembly and also one of the Vice Chairmen of the State Council of Vietnam from 1987 to 1992.
As a native of Đình Bảng village in Từ Sơn District, in the Red River Delta province of Bắc Ninh, he was instrumental in the government's restoration of the Đô Temple as a national memorial.[1]