List of ambassadors of Vietnam to the United States

Ambassador of Vietnam to the United States
Lion Building, Embassy of Vietnam in Washington, D.C.
Incumbent
Pham Quang Vinh
since February 23, 2015
Inaugural holder Tran Van Kha
Formation July 1, 1952

The Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States is the official representative of the Vietnamese government to the government of the United States. The ambassador lives in Washington, D.C..

List of ambassadors

Term Start Term end Ambassador Vietnamese ruler at the time United States President at the time Resigned Biography
June 19, 1952 July 1, 1952 Tran Van Kha Bảo Đại Harry S. Truman Born 1894 in Cochinchina.

Tran Van Kha lived in France from 1911 to 1925. After returning to Hanoi, he occupied himself with educational problems. From 1926 to 1945, he was a member of the Colonial Council (Conseiller de l' Assemblée de l'Union Française pour le Viêtnam). In 1939, he became Vice President of the Colonial Council. He turned his attention to economics and became a member of the Municipal Council of Saigon. The ex-Emperor Bảo Đại appointed him to be the Vietnamese ambassador to the United States on March 3, 1952. [1]

August 11, 1954 August 16, 1954 Trần Văn Chương Ngo Dinh Diem Dwight D. Eisenhower August 22, 1963 Trần Văn Chương (1898–1986) was from a prominent Vietnamese family. His father was Tran Van Thong, governor of Hải Dương Province, and his mother was Bui Thi Lan, sister of Bui Quang Chieu, who in 1923 founded the Đảng Lập hiến Đông Dương (Constitutional Party). Chuong was also the younger brother of Trần Văn Đỗ (1903–1990), who served as South Vietnam's Foreign Minister from 1965 to 1967.

In July 1954, Tran Van Chuong became the minister of state in Ngo Dinh Diem's first government but was quickly sent to Washington to replace Tran Van Kha as the Vietnamese ambassador. He remained ambassador until his resignation on August 22, 1963, amid the Buddhist Crisis and immediately after the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids.[2]

December 9, 1964 December 15, 1964 Trần Thiện Khiêm Phan Khắc Sửu Lyndon B. Johnson Born December 15, 1925 in Saigon. He was from a Roman Catholic family and was the godson of Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục.[3]
December 8, 1965 December 16, 1965 Vu Van Thai Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Lyndon B. Johnson Born January 26, 1919, in Hanoi. He was the Director General of the Budget and Foreign Aid.

He attended secondary school in Vietnam. From 1939 to 1944, he attended Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufacturers, Paris (licence es sciences). From 1944 to 1946, he attended the National Center of Scientific Research, Paris, on scholarship. From 1946 to 1949, he was the Laboratory Chief, National. He was married to a French woman, the former Simone Garoute; they had three daughters.[4]

January 18, 1967 January 19, 1967 Bùi Diễm Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Lyndon B. Johnson Born 1923 in Phu Ly. The son of a scholar who had supported the patriotic movement led by Phan Chu Trinh, Diêm graduated from the prestigious Thăng Long School in Hanoi and then studied in France. He later held several important posts in the RVN.[5]
June 16, 1972 Nguyen Hoan Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Richard Nixon Chargé d'affaires
June 22, 1972 July 21, 1972 Trần Kim Phượng Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Richard Nixon Born November 5, 1926, in Hanoi. He holds degrees in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Paris, and in International Relations from the Sciences Po, Paris.
May 21, 1975 April 30, 1975 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Gerald Ford Embassy closed at 6:30 p.m. on April 30, 1975.
February 1, 1995 August 5, 1995 Võ Văn Kiệt Bill Clinton Liaison office opened, embassy officially re-opened.
May 13, 1997 May 14, 1997 Le Van Bang Võ Văn Kiệt Bill Clinton Born June 30, 1947, in Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam.[6]
August 24, 2001 October 10, 2001 Nguyen Chien Phan Văn Khải George W. Bush Born January 20, 1948, in Nghe An Province, central Vietnam.[7]
November 9, 2007 January 22, 2008 Le Cong Phung Nguyễn Tấn Dũng George W. Bush Born February 20, 1948, in Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam.[8]
May 2, 2011 July 7, 2011 Cuong Ouoc Nguyen Nguyen Minh Triet Barack Obama Born 6th October, 1959, in Hanoi.[9]
December 5, 2014 Present Pham Quang Vinh Nguyen Minh Triet Barack Obama Born 1958, grew up in Hanoi.[10]

Coordinates: 38°54′24″N 77°02′40″W / 38.906667°N 77.044444°W / 38.906667; -77.044444 [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tran Van Kha
  2. ↑ Trần Văn Chương
  3. ↑ Trần Thiện Khiêm
  4. ↑ Vu Van Thai
  5. ↑ Bùi Diễm
  6. ↑ Le Van Bang
  7. ↑ Nguyen Chien
  8. ↑ Le Cong Phung
  9. ↑ Cuong Ouoc Nguyen
  10. ↑ Pham Quang Vinh
  11. ↑ Chief of Protocol, Diplomatic Representation for "Vietnam". July 26, 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2017. , Web archiving
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