Su Nan-cheng (; 14 January 1936 – 2 September 2014) was a Taiwanese politician and Senior Advisor to ROC President

Chen Shui-bian Chen Shui-bian ( zh, t=陳水扁; born 12 October 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the fifth president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progres ...

. He was a mayor of

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, serving from 1977 to 1985, and an appointed mayor of

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, serving from 1985 to 1990. He was the speaker of the

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in 1999. Su was in the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...

and was part of the faction that supported the

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. He was expelled from the KMT twice: first in 1972 for violating a party resolution and running for Tainan City Mayor as an independent; second in 1999 for forwarding a term-extension amendment in the National Assembly against party orders. In 2003, Su openly supported DPP candidate

in the 2004 presidential election.

Tainan mayoralty

Su was elected the mayor of Tainan in 1976 as an

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candidate. In 1981, he was nominated by the

to run again and was re-elected. He served from 1977 to 1985, until he was appointed the mayor of

. During his term as Tainan mayor, he was recognized by the

Ramon Magsaysay Award The Ramon Magsaysay Award (Filipino language, Filipino: ''Gawad Ramon Magsaysay'') is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, ...

. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Tainan in 2001 as an independent candidate, and was elected a city council member instead. He died of heart failure in 2014.

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* 重修台灣省通志 Ed. Liu Ning-yen.

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