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Souphanouvong

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Souphanouvong

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Souphanouvong in 1978
Born13 July 1909
Palace Sisouvanna, Xieng Dong, Luang-Prabang, French Laos
Died9 January 1995 (aged 85)
Vientiane, Laos
Political partyLao People's Revolutionary Party


Souphanouvong was the first President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, a post in which he served from the establishment of the socialist republic on 2 December 1975 until 25 November 1986. Although born a Prince, Souphanouvong joined the communist faction of the Laotian Civil War and later became a Marxist-Leninist earning him the nickname of the "Red Prince".