Lee Yuan-tsu | |
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李元簇 | |
 Official portrait, 1990 | |
| 6th Vice President of the Republic of China | |
| In office 20 May 1990 – 19 May 1996 | |
| President | Lee Teng-hui |
| Preceded by | Lee Teng-hui |
| Succeeded by | Lien Chan |
| Secretary-General to the President | |
| In office 18 October 1988 – 19 May 1990 | |
| President | Lee Teng-hui |
| Deputy | Cheyne J. Y. Chiu |
| Preceded by | Shen Chang-huan |
| Succeeded by | Chiang Yen-si |
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 30 May 1978 – 1 June 1984 | |
| Premier | Hsu Ching-chung (acting) Sun Yun-suan |
| Preceded by | Wang Daoyuan (汪道淵) |
| Succeeded by | Shih Chi-yang |
| Minister of Education | |
| In office 19 April 1974 – 29 May 1978 | |
| Premier | Chiang Ching-kuo Hsu Ching-chung (acting) |
| Preceded by | Chiang Yen-si (蔣彥士) |
| Succeeded by | Chu Hui-sen (朱匯森) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1923-09-24)24 September 1923 Pingjiang,Yueyang,Hunan,Republic of China |
| Died | 8 March 2017(2017-03-08) (aged 93) Toufen,Miaoli,Taiwan |
| Political party | Kuomintang |
| Spouse | Xu Manyun (c.1948— January 1998) |
| Education | National Chengchi University (LLB) University of Bonn (PhD) |
Lee Yuan-tsu (Chinese:李元簇;pinyin:Lǐ Yuáncù;Wade–Giles:Li3 Yüan2-tsʻu4; 24 September 1923 — 8 March 2017), was a Chinese-born Taiwanese lawyer and politician who served underLee Teng-hui as the sixthvice president of the Republic of China.[1] He was ofHakka ancestry[2] and was a member of theKuomintang.
His family was Hakka, with origin inMeixian,Guangdong, but he was born inPingjiang,Hunan.
Lee obtained his bachelor's degree in law and politics fromNational Chengchi University inNanjing in 1946. He retreated toTaiwan fromMainland China in 1949 after the end ofChinese Civil War with theNational Revolutionary Army. He obtained his doctoral degree fromUniversity of Bonn in Germany in 1963.[2]
Lee enteredpolitics in 1969 when he became a legal consultant for theMinistry of National Defense. He served asMinister of Education from 1974 to 1978, thenMinister of Justice until 1984 andSecretary-General to the President between 1988 and 1990.[2]
He was nominated byLee Teng-hui to be theVice President of the Republic of China after the death ofPresidentChiang Ching-kuo in 1988. In 1989, President Lee stated that his vice president must be aMainland Chinese. Eventually Lee Yuan-tsu was elected as the Vice President by theNational Assembly on 21 March 1990, becoming the last vice president to be elected by the National Assembly before the introduction of direct presidential and vice presidential elections in Taiwan afterwards. He took office on 20 May 1990 serving until 19 May 1996.[3]
After retiring from politics in 1996, Lee resumed his teaching position atNational Chengchi University. His wife died in 1998. Eventually, he moved toToufen inMiaoli County, where he lived a low-profile life.[4]
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In his later life, Lee started to develop kidney problems which he treated withdialysis.[5] Weeks before his death, Lee had stopped eating and depended on nutritional injection only.[4] He told his medical team that he wished todie with dignity andrejected resuscitation.[3] Lee died ofkidney failure at 4:15 a.m. on 8 March 2017, aged 93, in his home in Miaoli County.[6]
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