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Phoui Sananikone was born on 6 September, 1903 in Vientiane, Laos, is a Phoui Sananikone locally known as Phagna Houakhong. Discover Phoui Sananikone's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 6 September, 1903
Birthday 6 September
Birthplace Vientiane, Laos
Date of death 4 December, 1983
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality Laos

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1903

Phoui Sananikone (ຜຸຍ ຊະນະນິກອນ; 6 September 1903, in Laos – 4 December 1983, in Paris) locally known as Phagna Houakhong (ພຍາຫົວຂອງ) was a politician and served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Laos from 1950 to 1951 and 1958 to 1959.

Since entering government service he had held virtually every top position in the Lao cabinet.

The majority of his work as politician concerned the independence and sovereignty of Laos in Southeast Asia, especially in regards of the western-oriented neutrality policy during the height of the Indochina Wars.

Phoui Sananikone was born in Vientiane into one of the most prominent families in Laos, in a political, economic and social sense.

Born in 1903, he was part of the Sananikones, a powerful Laotian aristocratic family.

1923

He graduated from Pavie College in 1923 before entered the colonial civil service as secretary in the Résidence supérieure in Laos.

A remarkable career followed.

After his outstanding performance, where he scored the highest mark in competitive tests similar to American civil service examinations, he was appointed a district administrator.

1941

Then in 1941 he was appointed Governor (Chao Khoueng) of the Province Houakhong (known as Haut Mékong or Luang Namtha province) and later reached the highest administrative hierarchy with the rank of Chao Khoueng Special Class.

1947

His political career began during the troubled post-war years in January 1947 as Minister of Education, Health and Social Welfare in the Royal Lao Government, where he was elected representative of Pakse and became the first president of the Lao National Assembly the same year.

He was elected President of National Assembly from 1947 to 1950.

Souvanna Phouma lost a vote of confidence in the National Assembly and was forced to resign.

Phoui succeeded Souvanna Phouma, and formed a new cabinet with the support of Committee for the Defence of the National Interests (CDNI) members.

The Pathet Lao were no longer represented in the new pro-American government.

1949

He took part in negotiating preceding the signature of the Franco-Lao General Convention of 1949 by which Laos became an Associated State of Indochina within the French Union.

1950

He was re-elected as president until 1950, where he resigned from his post after the Lao King Sisavang Vong commissioned him to form a cabinet.

In this capacity, as Prime Minister and Defense Minister, he headed the Lao Delegation to the Pau Conference in June 1950.

1954

After taking up office, Sananikone and his ministers shifted Lao policy to the right, dissolved the National Assembly, and denounced the 1954 Geneva truce.

Attempts were also made to disperse and neutralize Pathet Lao soldiers who had been integrated into the Royal Lao Army (RLA) a few months earlier.

He resigned under right-wing military pressure and handed all power to General Phoumi Nosavan, the head of the RLA.

1958

It was during that Year, where he and other former Lao Issara members founded the Independent Party, who later merged with the Nationalist party to win the election, where he became elected Prime Minister in his second term in August 1958.

1963

He was re-elected President of National Assembly from 1963 to 1965, and from 1968 to 1974.

1975

In May 1975 he left for France after the communist takeover.

In September that year was sentenced to death in his absence.

He died in Paris, aged 80.