Ho Chi Minh

For the ceety named efter him, see Ho Chi Minh Ceety.

Hồ Chí Minh (Vietnamese pronunciation: [hô̤ tɕǐmɪŋ] ( listen), Chữ Nôm: 胡志明), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung an an' a' kent as Nguyễn Ái Quốc (19 Mey 1890 – 3 September 1969) wis a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who wis prime meenister (1946–1955) an preses (1945–1969) o the Democratic Republic o Vietnam (North Vietnam). He formed the Democratic Republic o Vietnam an led the Viet Cong durin the Vietnam War till his daith.

Ho Chi Minh
Portrait c. 1946
Chairman o the Central Committee o the Communist Pairty o Vietnam
In office 19 Februar 1951 – 2 September 1969
Precedit bi	Poseetion established
Succeedit bi	Post abolished
First Secretary o the Central Committee o the Communist Pairty o Vietnam
In office 1 November 1956 – 10 September 1960
Precedit bi	Trường Chinh
Succeedit bi	Lê Duẩn
Preses o Vietnam
In office 2 September 1945 – 2 September 1969
Precedit bi	Poseetion established
Succeedit bi	Tôn Đức Thắng
Prime Meenister o Vietnam
In office 2 September 1945 – 20 September 1955
Precedit bi	Poseetion established
Succeedit bi	Phạm Văn Đồng
Personal details
Born	Nguyễn Sinh Cung 19 Mey 1890(1890-05-19) Nghệ An Province, French Indocheenae
Dee'd	2 September 1969(1969-09-02) (aged 79) Hanoi, North Vietnam
Naitionality	Vietnamese
Poleetical pairty	Wirkers’ Pairty o Vietnam
Signatur

Hồ led the Viet Minh independence movement frae 1941 onward, establishin the communist-governed Democratic Republic o Vietnam in 1945 an defeatin the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. He lost political pouer inside North Vietnam in the late 1950s, but remained as the heichlie visible figureheid preses till his daith. The umwhile caipital o Sooth Vietnam, Saigon, efter the Fall o Saigon, wis renamed Hồ Chí Minh Ceety in his honor.