[4] He was born on 11 November 1925 to Phạm Văn So and Hồ Thị Định in Sa Đéc, Cochinchina, French Indochina.

[5] Prior to becoming a military officer, He attended Trường Võ Bị Quốc Gia Huế/Dalat.

[6] After retiring from the military, he joined politics which he would go on to serve as governor of three provinces and being elected in the 1971 South Vietnamese parliamentary election as a member of the House of Representatives (Lower House) in the National Assembly, representing Ba Xuyên Province.

During his tenure in the House of Representatives, he was leader of the Republican bloc, which comprised a group of deputies who were pro-government, favoring President Thiệu's regime.

Soon after, they were admitted to entry into the US as refugees after a Lutheran Church in Greeley, Colorado sponsored Út and his family.