Trần Đức Lương (born May 5 1937) was president of Vietnam from 1997 to 2006.Lương was born in Quảng Ngãi Province and moved to Hanoi after leaving school in 1955. He studied geology at Hanoi University of Mining and Geology and was employed as a cartographer. He joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1959 and became a functionary of the party in the 1970s. In 1987 he became deputy prime minister.
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