Su Nan-cheng (; 14 January 1936 – 2 September 2014) was a Taiwanese politician and

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to ROC President

Chen Shui-bian Chen Shui-bian (; born 12 October 1950) is a retired Taiwanese politician and lawyer who served as the president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) whi ...

. He was a mayor of

Tainan Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" for its over 200 years of hi ...

, serving from 1977 to 1985, and an appointed mayor of Kaohsiung, 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), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

and was part of the faction that supported the Taiwanese localization movement. 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 Kaohsiung. During his term as Tainan mayor, he was recognized by the

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. 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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: Taiwan Province Document Council (台灣省文獻委員會), 1994 {{Authority control 1936 births 2014 deaths Kuomintang politicians in Taiwan Mayors of Kaohsiung Mayors of Tainan Senior Advisors to President Chen Shui-bian Ramon Magsaysay Award winners Tainan City Councilors Expelled members of the Kuomintang