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In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Nguyen. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Triet.

Nguyễn Minh Triết

President of Vietnam
In office 27 June 2006 – 25 July 2011
Prime Minister	Nguyen Tan Dung
Vice President	Truong My Hoa Nguyen Thi Doan
Preceded by	Tran Duc Luong
Succeeded by	Truong Tan Sang
Personal details
Born	(1942-10-08) 8 October 1942 (age 69) Bến Cát, French Indochina (now Vietnam)
Political party	Communist Party
Spouse(s)	Tran Thi Kim Chi
Religion	none (atheist)^[1]

Nguyen Minh Triet and First Lady Tran Thi Kim Chi meet with George W. Bush and Laura Bush at the President's Palace, November 2006.

Nguyễn Minh Triết (born October 9, 1942) was president of Vietnam from 2006 to 2011. He was elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam with 464 votes (94%) on June 27, 2006. He was previously the head of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. The presidency of Vietnam is a ceremonial position and the Politburo decides government policy. Triet was the fourth ranking member of the Politburo from 2006 to 2011. His term as president expired in July. Senior Politburo member Truong Tan Sang succeeded him.

Life and career

Triet was born in Bến Cát district, Bình Dương province. After teaching Mathematics in Saigon, Triet joined the Communist Party Of Vietnam in 1965 in southern Vietnam, during the Second Indochina War (Vietnam War) that involved the United States. He is among the top leaders of Vietnam who are native southerners and one of the few that had not regrouped to the North following the division of the country in 1954 (he was only 12 at the time).^[2] In 1992, he was appointed party chief of southern Sông Bé province. He guided the largely agricultural province into an attractive destination for foreign direct investment.

He ascended to the Politburo in 1997 and became Party head of Ho Chi Minh City in 2000. In that position, he oversaw a campaign against organized crime and corruption, including the arrest and execution of underworld kingpin Truong Van Cam, known as Nam Cam.

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Political offices
Preceded by Tran Duc Luong	President of Vietnam 2006–2011	Succeeded by Truong Tan Sang

Post-World War II Heads of state of Vietnam

North Vietnam (1945 – 1976)

South Vietnam (1946 – 1976)

Republic of Cochinchina (1946 – 48)	Nguyen Van Thinh Nguyen Van Xuan Le Van Hoach Nguyen Van Xuan

Central Government (1948 – 49)	Nguyen Van Xuan

State of Vietnam (1949–55)	Bao Dai Ngo Dinh Diem¹

Republic of Vietnam (1955 – 75) Presidents	Ngo Dinh Diem Duong Van Minh² Nguyen Khanh² Duong Van Minh² Nguyen Khanh² Duong Van Minh² Phan Khac Suu² Nguyen Van Thieu² Tran Van Huong^{1, 2} Duong Van Minh^{1, 2}

PRG (1975 – 76)	Huynh Tan Phat

Vietnam (1976 – )

¹acting
²military

Persondata
Name	Nguyen Minh Triet
Alternative names
Short description	President of Vietnam
Date of birth	8 October 1942
Place of birth	Ben Cat, Binh Duong, Vietnam
Date of death
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