Vũ Văn Mẫu
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This is a Vietnamese name; the family name is Vũ, but is often simplified as Vu in English-language text. According to Vietnamese custom, this person properly should be referred to by the given name Mẫu.

Vũ Văn Mẫu (1914 - 1998) was the last Prime Minister of South Vietnam and served under President Dương Văn Minh.

Vũ Văn Mẫu was born in 1914 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Education

He earned a doctorate in law from the University of Paris and practiced law in Hanoi. After Vietnam’s partition in 1954, he moved to Saigon with his family and joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Saigon, where he became the Dean of the Faculty. He was recognized as an expert in civil and historical law.

Law career

After several years as a professor he then became a local Saigon judge, rising through the ranks to become Judge of the Saigon Superior Court. During his legal career and even during retirement and exile, he authored a number of books, including one entitled “Vietnamese Civil Law”.

Political career

In the early 1970s, he was elected Senator of the Republic where he became a prominent national politician. In 1975, he became Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam under President Dương Văn Minh.

Exile

He died in Paris in 1998, aged 84.

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