List of vice presidents of the Republic of China
![Portrait of Li Zongren](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Li_Zongren4.jpg/145px-Li_Zongren4.jpg)
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- Top left: Li Zongren was the first vice president under the 1947 Constitution and the only vice president to have acted as president.
- Top right: Lien Chan was the first vice president directly elected by popular vote.
- Bottom left: Annette Lu was the first female vice president and the only individual to have served two full terms in the post.
- Bottom right: Hsiao Bi-khim is the incumbent officeholder and the first biracial vice president.
- To avoid confusion, all the names on this list follow the Eastern order convention (family name first, given name second) for consistency.
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This is a list of all the vice presidents of the Republic of China (1912–present).
Name | Chinese | Mandarin Pinyin | Taiwanese Pe̍h-ōe-jī | Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ |
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Vice President | 副總統 | Fùzǒngtǒng | Hù-chóng-thóng | Fu-chúng-thúng |
Timeline
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List
Provisional Government: Tongmenghui Beiyang clique, etc. Independent
Beiyang Government: Beiyang clique, etc. Progressive Party
Constitutional Government: Kuomintang (KMT) Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Independent
Vice presidents of the Provisional Government | ||||||||
№ | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | President | Assembly (elected) | ||
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1 | ![]() | Li Yuanhong 黎元洪 (1864–1928) | 1 January 1912 | 10 October 1913 | Independent | Sun Yat-sen (Tongmenghui) | Provisional (1911) | |
Yuan Shikai (Beiyang clique) | Provisional (1912) | |||||||
Vice presidents of the Beiyang Government | ||||||||
№ | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | President | Assembly (elected) | ||
1 | ![]() | Li Yuanhong 黎元洪 (1864–1928) | 10 October 1913 | 6 June 1916 | Progressive Party | Yuan Shikai (Beiyang clique) | 1st (1913) | |
2 | ![]() | Feng Guozhang 馮國璋 (1859–1919) | 6 June 1916 | 17 July 1917 | Beiyang clique | Li Yuanhong (Progressive Party) | 1st (1916) | |
Vice presidents after the 1947 Constitution | ||||||||
№ | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | President | Term (elected) | ||
1 | ![]() | Li Zongren 李宗仁 (1890–1969) | 20 May 1948[note 1] | 12 March 1954[note 2][1] | Kuomintang | Chiang Kai-shek (Kuomintang) | 1 (1948) | |
Office vacant 12 March – 19 May 1954 | ||||||||
2 | ![]() | Chen Cheng 陳誠 (1898–1965) | 20 May 1954 | 5 March 1965[note 3] | Kuomintang | 2 (1954) | ||
3 (1960) | ||||||||
Office vacant 5 March 1965 – 19 May 1966 | ||||||||
3 | ![]() | Yen Chia-kan (C. K. Yen) 嚴家淦 (1905–1993) | 20 May 1966 | 5 April 1975 | Kuomintang | 4 (1966) | ||
5 (1972) | ||||||||
Office vacant 5 April 1975 – 19 May 1978 | Yen Chia-kan (Kuomintang) | |||||||
4 | ![]() | Hsieh Tung-min 謝東閔 (1908–2001) | 20 May 1978 | 19 May 1984 | Kuomintang | Chiang Ching-kuo (Kuomintang) | 6 (1978) | |
5 | ![]() | Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 (1923–2020) | 20 May 1984 | 13 January 1988 | Kuomintang | 7 (1984) | ||
Office vacant 13 January 1988 – 19 May 1990 | Lee Teng-hui (Kuomintang) | |||||||
6 | ![]() | Li Yuan-tsu 李元簇 (1923–2017) | 20 May 1990 | 20 May 1996 | Kuomintang | 8 (1990) | ||
Vice presidents after the introduction of direct election | ||||||||
№ | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | President | Term (elected) | ||
7 | ![]() | Lien Chan 連戰 (born 1936) | 20 May 1996 | 20 May 2000 | Kuomintang | Lee Teng-hui (Kuomintang) | 9 (1996) | |
8 | ![]() | Annette Lu (Lü Hsiu-lien) 呂秀蓮 (born 1944) | 20 May 2000 | 20 May 2008 | Democratic Progressive | Chen Shui-bian (DPP) | 10 (2000) | |
11 (2004) | ||||||||
9 | ![]() | Vincent Siew (Siew Wan-chang) 蕭萬長 (born 1939) | 20 May 2008 | 20 May 2012 | Kuomintang | Ma Ying-jeou (Kuomintang) | 12 (2008) | |
10 | ![]() | Wu Den-yih 吳敦義 (born 1948) | 20 May 2012 | 20 May 2016 | Kuomintang | 13 (2012) | ||
11 | ![]() | Chen Chien-jen 陳建仁 (born 1951) | 20 May 2016 | 20 May 2020 | Independent | Tsai Ing-wen (DPP) | 14 (2016) | |
12 | ![]() | Lai Ching-te 賴清德 (born 1959) | 20 May 2020 | 20 May 2024 | Democratic Progressive | 15 (2020) | ||
13 | ![]() | Hsiao Bi-khim 蕭美琴 (born 1971) | 20 May 2024 | Incumbent | Democratic Progressive | Lai Ching-te (DPP) | 16 (2024) |
Vice presidential age-related data (post-1947 Constitution)
# | Vice President | Born | Age at start of vice presidency | Age at end of vice presidency | Post-vice presidency timespan | Lifespan | |
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Died | Age | ||||||
01 | Li Zongren | Aug 13, 1890 | 57 years, 281 days May 20, 1948 | 63 years, 209 days Mar 10, 1954 | 14 years, 326 days | Jan 30, 1969 | 78 years, 170 days |
02 | Chen Cheng | Jan 4, 1898 | 56 years, 136 days May 20, 1954 | 67 years, 60 days Mar 5, 1965 | 0 days | Mar 5, 1965 | 67 years, 60 days |
03 | Yen Chia-kan | Oct 23, 1905 | 60 years, 209 days May 20, 1966 | 69 years, 164 days Apr 5, 1975 | 18 years, 263 days | Dec 24, 1993 | 88 years, 62 days |
04 | Hsieh Tung-min | Jan 25, 1908 | 70 years, 115 days May 20, 1978 | 76 years, 116 days May 20, 1984 | 16 years, 324 days | Apr 9, 2001 | 93 years, 74 days |
05 | Lee Teng-hui | Jan 15, 1923 | 61 years, 126 days May 20, 1984 | 64 years, 363 days Jan 13, 1988 | 32 years, 199 days | Jul 30, 2020 | 97 years, 197 days |
06 | Lee Yuan-tsu | Sep 24, 1923 | 66 years, 238 days May 20, 1990 | 72 years, 239 days May 20, 1996 | 20 years, 292 days | Mar 8, 2017 | 93 years, 165 days |
07 | Lien Chan | Aug 27, 1936 | 59 years, 267 days May 20, 1996 | 63 years, 267 days May 20, 2000 | 24 years, 90 days | 2024-08-18(living) | 87 years, 357 days |
08 | Annette Lu | Jun 7, 1944 | 55 years, 348 days May 20, 2000 | 63 years, 348 days May 20, 2008 | 16 years, 90 days | 2024-08-18(living) | 80 years, 72 days |
09 | Vincent Siew | Jan 3, 1939 | 69 years, 138 days May 20, 2008 | 73 years, 138 days May 20, 2012 | 12 years, 90 days | 2024-08-18(living) | 85 years, 228 days |
10 | Wu Den-yih | Jan 30, 1948 | 64 years, 111 days May 20, 2012 | 68 years, 111 days May 20, 2016 | 8 years, 90 days | 2024-08-18(living) | 76 years, 201 days |
11 | Chen Chien-jen | Jun 6, 1951 | 64 years, 349 days May 20, 2016 | 68 years, 349 days May 20, 2020 | 4 years, 90 days | 2024-08-18(living) | 73 years, 73 days |
12 | Lai Ching-te | Oct 6, 1959 | 60 years, 227 days May 20, 2020 | 64 years, 227 days May 20, 2024 | 90 days | 2024-08-18(living) | 64 years, 317 days |
13 | Hsiao Bi-khim | Aug 7, 1971 | 52 years, 287 days May 20, 2024 | 53 years, 11 days(incumbent) | (incumbent) | 2024-08-18(living) | 53 years, 11 days |
Oldest living
Green text and an asterisk mark the inauguration date of a vice president older than any living ex-vice president. Other dates are the deaths of the then-oldest vice president.
President | Date range | Age at start | Age at end | Time span |
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Li Zongren | May 20, 1948* – January 30, 1969 | 57 years, 281 days | 78 years, 170 days | 20 years, 255 days |
Yen Chia-kan | January 30, 1969 – December 24, 1993 | 63 years, 99 days | 88 years, 62 days | 24 years, 328 days |
Lee Teng-hui | December 24, 1993 – July 30, 2020 | 70 years, 343 days | 97 years, 197 days | 26 years, 219 days |
Lien Chan | July 30, 2020 – present | 83 years, 338 days | 87 years, 357 days(living) | 4 years, 19 days |
Notes
See also
- List of vice presidents of the Republic of China by other offices held
- List of presidents of the Republic of China
- List of premiers of the Republic of China
- List of political office-holders of the Republic of China by age
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