Dao Minh Quan (born Đào Minh Quân in 1952) is a Vietnamese-American politician. He is the 3rd President of the Third Republic of Vietnam, a claimed government in exile. He is known for starting the Vietnam New Democratic Movement.

Early life and education

Quân was born in Thị Nghè village,

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, in

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to Đào Thế (father) and Nguyễn Thị Hạnh (mother). He claims to be a descendent of the Grand Prince of Trần Hưng Đạo. He attended Phan Thanh Giản school until 1968. Quân participated in a Commando course at Sơn Trà/Non Nước military base when he was 16 years old. During the

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, he assisted Robert D. Ohman and later became the First Lieutenant of the 122nd Battalion. He was then promoted as the Lieutenant Commander of a special force unit called "Black Tiger." In 1980, he immigrated to

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, United States with his family as political refugees. He studied Computer Programming at Rancho Santiago Community College.

Career

Đào became a politician in 1971 and started the Vietnam New Democratic Movement in 1987. Đào Minh Quân and Nguyễn Hậu, the President of the General Association of Communist Political Prisoners, created illegal files for political prisoners in Vietnam starting in 1990. This helped ARVN soldiers reunite with their families. Đào also initiated a program called C.P.A. (

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) to help Vietnamese refugees settle in the United States. He was invited to the Host Committee in 1990 for the

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. In 1991 he was voted as the Prime Minister of the Provisional National Government of Vietnam which was newly founded. It served as a self-proclaimed provisional government of Vietnam. He established his political party, the Third Republic of Vietnam, on February 16, 2018. It also serves as a self-proclaimed provisional government of Vietnam. Đào was voted and elected as the Third President of the Republic of Vietnam, as also self-proclaimed; or the First President of the newly founded Third Republic of Vietnam. He was accepted and was inaugurated on November 11, 2018, in

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. Đào has received two

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s from former American President

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. The Provisional Government of

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also invited him to give a speech at the congress of the

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. On October 15, 2010, U.S. Representative Gary Miller and

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invited Đào as Prime Minister of the Provisional National Government of Vietnam to claim sovereignty in the

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at the Nixon Library. Đào built a tributary monument named called the Hexagon Monument as a tribute to the US government, military, and the American people.

Controversy

Đào's political party has been designated as a terrorist organization by the website of the

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in Vietnam. Members of Đào's political party have appeared in the People's Court of

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on the crime of overthrowing the

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, including a bombing and arson at a police facility and an unsuccessful bombing attempt at an airport, presumably Tan Son Nhat Intl.

References

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