Bùi Bằng Đoàn

Following the August Revolution the chairman of the Indochinese Communist Party Hồ Chí Minh invited him to become a special inspector in the newly established government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam where he would later be elected to become a member of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on 6 January 1946.

[2] In 1907 Bùi Bằng Đoàn started his education at the Trường Hậu bổ in Hanoi and in 1911 he graduated with the highest grades in the school.

[3] The relevant recommendations of the report were accepted by the authorities, reducing the harsh regimes for rubber plantation workers at that time.

[3] In 1925 Bùi Bằng Đoàn was sent to Hanoi to act as an interpreter for the felony trial in the case of Phan Bội Châu, Bùi Bằng Đoàn clearly and honestly translated Phan Bội Châu's words and strong arguments so that his sentence would be reduced to being under public house arrest in Huế.

[2] In 1933 the Bảo Đại Emperor appointed him to the position of Minister (Thượng thư) of the Ministry of Justice by recommendation of Phạm Quỳnh.

[3] During the "night before" of the August Revolution, the Việt Minh contacted him and invited to become the president of the association to protect political prisoners, which he accepted.

[3] Despite the invitation Bằng Đoàn wanted to "hang the seal of resignation" on peace in his hometown of Liên Bạt, where he lived on a plantation for a short while, but on 9 November 1945 he received a letter from President Hồ Chí Minh asking him to take charge of the water works of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

[3] Bùi Bằng Đoàn was forced to retreat with the rest of the revolutionary government to the Việt Bắc area where he his relationship with President Hồ Chí Minh became closer causing the latter to write a classical Chinese poem for him.

His excellence Bùi Bằng Đoàn in ceremonial costume during the Nam Giao Ceremony in Huế (1942).