Lê Quang Đạo (; 8 August 1921 – 24 July 1999) was a Vietnamese politician who was a member of the

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( Vietnamese: ''Ban Chấp hành Trung ương Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam''), commonly the Party Central Committee (PCC; - or ), is the highest organ between two national congresses ...

from 1960 to 1991. Having served 28 years in the military, he was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1959 and Lieutenant General in 1974. He was Chairman of the National Assembly and also one of the Vice Chairmen of the State Council of Vietnam from 1987 to 1992. As a native of Đình Bảng village in Từ Sơn District, in the

Red River Delta The Red River Delta or Hong River Delta () is the flat low-lying plain formed by the Red River and its distributaries merging with the Thái Bình River in Northern Vietnam. ''Hồng'' (紅) is a Sino-Vietnamese word for "red" or "crimson". T ...

province of

Bắc Ninh Bắc Ninh () is a city in the Northern Vietnam, northern part of Vietnam and is the capital of Bắc Ninh province. The city is the cultural, administrative and commercial center of the province. The city area is 82.60 square km, with a populat ...

, he was instrumental in the government's restoration of the Đô Temple as a national memorial.Philip Taylor ''Modernity and Re-Enchantment: Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam'' -2007 Page 67 "... President Lê Đức Anh; military hero General Võ Nguyên Giáp; Prime Minister Võ Văn Kiệt; and president of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Lê Quang Đạo, a Đình Bảng native instrumental in jump-starting the temple renovation back in the late "

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1921 births 1999 deaths Generals of the People's Army of Vietnam Chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly (Vietnam) Vice presidents of Vietnam Members of the 4th Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam Members of the 5th Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam Alternates of the 3rd Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Members of the 4th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Members of the 5th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam People from Bắc Ninh province {{Vietnam-politician-stub