Nguyen Van Thinh
Nguyễn Văn Thinh (1888 – 10 November 1946,
Saigon) was the first
President of Cochinchina. Thinh was a French citizen and joined the Constitutionalist Party in 1926. He founded the
Cochinchinese Democratic Party in 1937. He became chief of the provisional government on March 26, 1946, and provisional president on June 1. He felt a loss of face when the French negotiated with the
Viet Minh, ignoring his government. "I am being compelled to play a farce," he said. He died, an apparent suicide while still in office, on November 10.
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