Background
Phomvihan, Kaysone was born in 1920 in Savannakhet-Province, Laos.
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Kaysone Phomvihan
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Attended, University Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Career
Joined Free Lao Front (Neo Lao Issara) nationalist movement in exile, Bangkok, 1945. Attended 1st resistance congress. Minister of defense Free Lao Front resistance Government, 1950.
Commander-in-chief of Pathet Lao forces, 1954-1957. Member People's Party of Laos, 1955, Lao Patriotic Front (Neo Lao Hak Sat), 1956, vice chairman, 1959, vice chairman Central Committee, 1964. Prime minister of Laos, 1975-1991, president, since 1991.
Chairman Council of Mins. Member political bureau, general secretary Central Committee Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
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Laotian