Activities and affiliations

Political and party leadership Lao People's Revolutionary Party 1914–2008 ○ old age

Lao revolutionary leader and president

On 2 December 1975 the National Congress of People's Representatives elected Nouhak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the new Lao People's Democratic Republic government. Sources credit Kaysone Phomvihane, not Nouhak, as the presiding official who proclaimed the republic.

A founding figure of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and a leading Pathet Lao revolutionary. Born in Mukdahan, Siam (now Thailand) to an ethnic Lao family, he was ranked second after Kaysone in the party's Politburo at its 1955 founding congress and joined the Politburo at the 2nd Congress in 1972 with responsibility for economic affairs. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance after 1975, and was President from 1992 to 1998.

Political and party leadership Lao People's Revolutionary Party 1920–1992

Lao revolution and economic reform

In December 1975 he proclaimed the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic before the National Congress of People's Representatives.

Lao People’s Revolutionary Party leader and prime minister after the republic’s establishment in 1975. He maintained close Vietnamese ties and led state reorganization and market-oriented reforms in the 1980s. He became president in 1991.