(2 June 1898 — 24 July 1986[1]) was South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States in the early 1960s and the father of the country's de facto first lady, Madame Nhu (1924-2011).
He was also the foreign minister of the Empire of Vietnam, a Japanese puppet state that existed in 1945.
He married Thân Thị Nam Trân, who was a member of the extended Vietnamese royal family. Her father was Thân Trọng Huề;, who became Vietnam's minister for national education, and her mother was a daughter of Emperor Khánh. They had a son and three daughters, including LeXuân, who became the wife of Ngôình Nhu, the brother of South Vietnam's first President, Ngôình Dim.
His family alliances enabled him to rise from being a member of a small law practice in the Cochin-Chinese (South Vietnamese) town of Bc Liêu in the 1920s to become Vietnam's first Foreign Secretary under his wife's cousin Emperor Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, while Japan occupied Vietnam during World War II. He eventually became South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States, but resigned in protest in 1963, denouncing his government's anti-Buddhist policies.
On 1 November 1963, Chuong's son-in-law Ngôinh Nhu and Nhu's brother, President Ngo Dinh Diem were assassinated in a coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh;n Minh. Chuong's daughter, Ngôình Nhu's wife, Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California at the time of the coup.
Chương and his wife remained in the United States in Washington, D.C.
On 24 July 1986, they were found strangled to death at their home by their son, He and his wife were interred at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
He was also the foreign minister of the Empire of Vietnam, a Japanese puppet state that existed in 1945.
He married Thân Thị Nam Trân, who was a member of the extended Vietnamese royal family. Her father was Thân Trọng Huề;, who became Vietnam's minister for national education, and her mother was a daughter of Emperor Khánh. They had a son and three daughters, including LeXuân, who became the wife of Ngôình Nhu, the brother of South Vietnam's first President, Ngôình Dim.
His family alliances enabled him to rise from being a member of a small law practice in the Cochin-Chinese (South Vietnamese) town of Bc Liêu in the 1920s to become Vietnam's first Foreign Secretary under his wife's cousin Emperor Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, while Japan occupied Vietnam during World War II. He eventually became South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States, but resigned in protest in 1963, denouncing his government's anti-Buddhist policies.
On 1 November 1963, Chuong's son-in-law Ngôinh Nhu and Nhu's brother, President Ngo Dinh Diem were assassinated in a coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh;n Minh. Chuong's daughter, Ngôình Nhu's wife, Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California at the time of the coup.
Chương and his wife remained in the United States in Washington, D.C.
On 24 July 1986, they were found strangled to death at their home by their son, He and his wife were interred at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
(2 June 1898 — 24 July 1986[1]) was South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States in the early 1960s and the father of the country's de facto first lady, Madame Nhu (1924-2011).
He was also the foreign minister of the Empire of Vietnam, a Japanese puppet state that existed in 1945.
He married Thân Thị Nam Trân, who was a member of the extended Vietnamese royal family. Her father was Thân Trọng Huề;, who became Vietnam's minister for national education, and her mother was a daughter of Emperor Khánh. They had a son and three daughters, including LeXuân, who became the wife of Ngôình Nhu, the brother of South Vietnam's first President, Ngôình Dim.
His family alliances enabled him to rise from being a member of a small law practice in the Cochin-Chinese (South Vietnamese) town of Bc Liêu in the 1920s to become Vietnam's first Foreign Secretary under his wife's cousin Emperor Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, while Japan occupied Vietnam during World War II. He eventually became South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States, but resigned in protest in 1963, denouncing his government's anti-Buddhist policies.
On 1 November 1963, Chuong's son-in-law Ngôinh Nhu and Nhu's brother, President Ngo Dinh Diem were assassinated in a coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh;n Minh. Chuong's daughter, Ngôình Nhu's wife, Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California at the time of the coup.
Chương and his wife remained in the United States in Washington, D.C.
On 24 July 1986, they were found strangled to death at their home by their son, He and his wife were interred at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
He was also the foreign minister of the Empire of Vietnam, a Japanese puppet state that existed in 1945.
He married Thân Thị Nam Trân, who was a member of the extended Vietnamese royal family. Her father was Thân Trọng Huề;, who became Vietnam's minister for national education, and her mother was a daughter of Emperor Khánh. They had a son and three daughters, including LeXuân, who became the wife of Ngôình Nhu, the brother of South Vietnam's first President, Ngôình Dim.
His family alliances enabled him to rise from being a member of a small law practice in the Cochin-Chinese (South Vietnamese) town of Bc Liêu in the 1920s to become Vietnam's first Foreign Secretary under his wife's cousin Emperor Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, while Japan occupied Vietnam during World War II. He eventually became South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States, but resigned in protest in 1963, denouncing his government's anti-Buddhist policies.
On 1 November 1963, Chuong's son-in-law Ngôinh Nhu and Nhu's brother, President Ngo Dinh Diem were assassinated in a coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh;n Minh. Chuong's daughter, Ngôình Nhu's wife, Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California at the time of the coup.
Chương and his wife remained in the United States in Washington, D.C.
On 24 July 1986, they were found strangled to death at their home by their son, He and his wife were interred at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
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