Trần Kim Phượng | |
Birth Date: | 5 November 1926 |
Office: | South Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States |
Birth Place: | Hanoi, French Indochina |
Term Start: | 21 July 1972 |
Term End: | 21 May 1975 |
Predecessor: | Bùi Diễm |
Successor: | Mission terminated |
President: | Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Trần Văn Hương Dương Văn Minh |
Death Place: | Maryland, U.S. |
Children: | 2 |
Office2: | South Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia |
Predecessor2: | Tăng Văn Chỉ |
Successor2: | Nguyễn Duy Quang |
Termstart2: | 1964 |
Termend2: | 1967 |
Office1: | South Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia |
Predecessor1: | Nguyễn Văn Hiếu |
Successor1: | Đỗ Trọng Chu |
Termstart1: | 1967 |
Termend1: | 1970 |
President1: | Nguyễn Văn Thiệu |
Trần Kim Phượng (5 November 1926 – 1 April 2004) was the last ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam to the United States.
Trần Kim Phượng was born on 5 November 1926 in Hanoi, French Indochina.[1] [2]
He previously served as South Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia from 1964 to 1967, and Australia from 1967 to 1970.[3]
After the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, the South Vietnamese Embassy in the United States was closed on 21 May.[4] After that Trần Kim Phượng lived in the United States until his death on 1 April 2004 in Maryland.[5] [6]
Trần Kim Phượng was married and had 2 children.