Background
Sisowath Youtevong was born in 1913 in Udong, Cambodia, as the son of Prince Chamraengvongs (1870–1916) and Princess Sisowath Yubhiphan (1877–1967).
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Sisowath Youtevong
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He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Cambodia from December 1946 to July 1947. He studied at a science university in France and received a certificate of mathematics in 1941. He would later go on to be elected as President of the newly founded Democratic Party of Cambodia in April 1946.
Youtevong was the principal author of the constitution at that time, which was put to use on 6 May 1947.
He led the Democratic Party to victory in the elections on 1 September 1946 and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 15 December 1946. Prince Sisowath Youtevong died on 17 July 1947 two days after leaving office as Prime Minister, at Calmette Hospital, Phnom Penh, and was succeeded by Sisowath Watchayavong.
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Political Party
Democratic party