Nguyễn Phan Long (; 1888 – 16 July 1960) was a Vietnamese journalist and politician who served as Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam from 20 January to 27 April in 1950. He was dismissed by the Head of State Bảo Đại under pressure from the French colonial authorities, who resented his pro-American and nationalist attitude.Ellen J. Hammer, Struggle for Indochina, 1940-1955, Stanford University Press, 1955 , pp. 273-274
Early life and career He was born in Saigon in 1888. He was sent to Hanoi to be educated at the Lycée Albert Sarraut, afterward, he returned to Saigon to work as a high school teacher and a journalist. In 1917 he worked for the La Tribune Indigène and in 1920, he founded the liberal newspaper L'Écho Annamite, in which he worked with the (Eurasian) Vietnamese nationalist Eugène Dejean de la Bâtie, Vĩnh Đào, Quelques notes sur Eugène Dejean de la Batie friend of André Malraux. During his time as a journalist, Long would write about spiritualism and the Vietnamese religion Caodaism. Gustave Meillon, Le Caodaïsme - 3
Political career In the 1920s–1930s, he was the deputy leader of the Parti Constitutionnaliste Indochinois, a nationalist party founded in 1923 and led by Bui Quang Chiêu. Đình Thảo Trịnh, Dinh Khai Trinh, Décolonisation du Viêt Nam: un avocat témoigne, Editions L'Harmattan, 1994, , p. 45 He was elected as colonial councillor.
He was elected in 1936 as president of the Congrès Universel des Sectes Caodaïques, an attempted unified caodai movement, which eventually failed. Gustave Meillon, Le Caodaïsme - 1
After 1945, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Interior as well as editor of L'Écho du Vietnam.
Personal life and death He was an ardent follower of Caodaism and spoke fluent French. He was married to Trần Thị Nguyên. He died in Saigon on 16 July 1960 at the age of 71.
References
Sources R. B. Smith, "Bui Quang Chiêu and the Constitutionalist Party in French Cochinchina, 1917–30", Modern Asian Studies (1969), 3:131-150 Cambridge University Press Micheline R. Lessard, "Organisons-nous! Racial Antagonism and Vietnamese Economic Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century", French Colonial History – Volume 8, 2007, pp. 171–201 Christopher E. Goscha, "Widening the Colonial Encounter: Asian Connections Inside French Indochina During the Interwar Period", Modern Asian Studies (Published online by Cambridge University Press) 16 Oct 2008 (abstract)