education predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place religion image_ party birth_date order term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
school of public administration and law position of vietnam prince bửu lộc created bảo Đại as chief of the state dương văn minh none 2 november 1963 quảng bình , french indochina saigon , south vietnam roman catholicism presidential png standard of south vietnam -lrb- 1955-1963 -rrb- . cần lao 3 january 1901 president the state of vietnam of the republic of vietnam prime minister of 26 october 1955 26 june 1954 '' none '' ngo dinh diem - thumbnail - arc 542189.png ngo dinh diem
 2 november 1963 26 october 1955 ngô Đình diệm
ngo dinh diem

ngô Đình diệm -lrb- ; ; 3 january 1901 -- 2 november 1963 -rrb- was the first president of south vietnam -lrb- 1955 -- 1963 -rrb- .
in the wake of the french withdrawal from indochina as a result of the 1954 geneva accords , diệm led the effort to create the republic of vietnam .
accruing considerable u.s. support due to his staunch anti-communism , he announced victory after a fraudulent 1955 plebiscite in which he won 600,000 votes from an electorate of only 450,000 and began building a right-wing dictatorship in south vietnam .
a roman catholic , diệm 's discriminatory policies toward the republic 's montagnard natives and the nation 's buddhist majority were met with protests and non-violent resistance , culminating in the self-immolation of buddhist monk thích quảng Đức in 1963 .
amid religious protests , diệm lost the backing of his us patrons and was assassinated , along with his brother , ngô Đình nhu , by nguyễn văn nhung , the aide of arvn general dương văn minh on 2 november 1963 , during a coup d'état that deposed his government .
