Trương Vĩnh Lễ

Trương Vĩnh Lễ (13 May 1914 – 23 October 2011) was a South Vietnamese politician who served as the second President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Vietnam during the First Republic from 1959 until the 1963 coup which lead to the overthrow and assassination of South Vietnam's President Ngô Đình Diệm.

After Diệm's overthrow, he had his assets frozen by the new government of General Dương Văn Minh.

He comes from a Catholic family of Vietnamese scholars with careers in academia, journalism, and publishing.

[2][1] Under the First Republic, he served as a member of the National Assembly representing District 3 of Gia Định province as a member of the majority bloc and was affiliated with the Citizen's Assembly group.

[3] He initially filed to run in the 1971 South Vietnamese presidential election with Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ but later withdrew.