Nguyen Van Loc

Nguyễn Văn Lộc (; 24 August 1922 – 31 May 1992) was a South Vietnamese educator, lawyer, and politician who served as Prime Minister of South Vietnam between 31 October 1967 and 18 May 1968.

Career In 1945, he participated in the Anti-French War of Resistance, commonly known as the First Indochina War, in which he served as the editor-in-chief of an underground newspaper called La Lutte. After realizing the communist nature of the Việt Minh, he left and returned to Saigon, publishing and printing newspapers.

Political career From 1955, Lộc became a lawyer of the Saigon High Court

Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1967–1968) On 31 October 1967, Lộc was appointed by President Thiệu to be the first Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Vietnam. In an interview with the New York Times, Lộc describes in the re-education camps he and other inmates were forced to perform hard labor such as clearing the jungles, swamps, and minefields to build dams and farming. He mentions the conditions of the camps were so brutal that two or three people within the camps would die every week from malnutrition or illnesses He later settled in Houston, Texas with his wife, Nguyễn Thị Mai, with whom he would have three more children.