Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat (Thai: สฤษดิ์ ธนะรัชต์ alternatively spelled Dhanarajata) (June 16 1908 – December 8 1963) was a Thai career soldier who staged a coup in 1957 thereafter serving as Thailand’s Prime Minister until his death in 1963. He was born in Bangkok but grew up in his mother’s home town in Lao-speaking northeastern Thailand and considered himself an Isan.
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