monarch predecessor successor children birth_place nationality party profession native_name birth_date order term_start signature image article_title term_end name partner
bhumibol adulyadej adulyadej bhumibol adulyadej bhumibol adulyadej bhumibol adulyadej bhumibol chavalit yongchaiyudh anand panyarachun thaksin shinawatra banharn silpa-archa 1 trang , trang , siam thai democrat party lawyer ชวน หลีกภัย 28 july 1938 20th in house of representatives of thailand prime minister of thailand leader of the opposition november 4 , 1995 december 21 , 1996 march 11 , 9 2001 , 1997 september 20 , 1992 august thai-pm-chuan signature.png chuan leekpai.jpg chuan leekpai
 february 27 , 1996 november 8 , 1997 may 3 , 9 2003 , 2001 may 19 , 1995 september chuan leekpai pakdiporn sucharitakul
chuan leekpai

chuan leekpai -lrb- ; ; ; born july 28 , 1938 in trang -rrb- was the prime minister of thailand from september 20 , 1992 to may 19 , 1995 and again from november 9 , 1997 to february 9 , 2001 .
he is a third-generation thai chinese of hokkien descent .
his father 's name was niyom leekpai and his mother 's name was tuan leekpai .
chuan leekpai has 9 siblings and is the third child in the family .
at a young age , chuan moved to the temple school called ` wat amarintraram ' in bangkok where he lived for 6 years .
then he went to study law at thammasat university , bangkok , thailand .
after he graduated , he worked as a lawyer and then as a politician .
he has one son , surabot leekpai , with pakdiporn sujaritkul -lrb- his common-law wife -rrb- .
as the leader of the democrat party , chuan was elected in 1992 after the abortive coup by general suchinda kraprayoon , thus becoming thailand 's first prime minister to come to power without either aristocratic or military backing .
his first administration consisted of a five party coalition of the democrat , new aspiration , palang dhamma , social action and social unity parties until he was defeated in the 1995 election , but assumed power in late 1997 following the fall of the chavalit yongchaiyut administration , which was held responsible for the economic crisis that beset thailand in 1997 .
although being criticised as a slow actor and allowing numerous corruption scandals , chuan managed to meet factional demands and extend thailand 's social security system .
