Lê Quang Đạo Explained

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
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Military Blank2:Service years
Military Data2:1948–1976
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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]

Notes and References

  1. Philip Taylor Modernity and Re-Enchantment: Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam -2007 Page 67 "... President Lê Đức Anh; military hero General Võ Nguyên Giáp; Prime Minister Võ Văn Kiệt; and president of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Lê Quang Đạo, a Đình Bảng native instrumental in jump-starting the temple renovation back in the late "