Trần Đức Lương (born 5 May 1937) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the sixth President of Vietnam from 1997 to 2006.^[1]

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Trần Đức Lương
Trần Đức Lương in 2004
6th President of Vietnam
In office 24 September 1997 – 27 June 2006
Prime Minister	Phan Văn Khải
Vice President	Nguyễn Thị Bình Trương Mỹ Hoa
Preceded by	Lê Đức Anh
Succeeded by	Nguyễn Minh Triết
Chairman of the Council for National Defense and Security
In office 24 September 1997 – 27 June 2006
Deputy	Phan Văn Khải
Preceded by	Lê Đức Anh
Succeeded by	Nguyễn Minh Triết
Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam
In office February 1987 – 29 September 1997
Prime Minister	Phạm Văn Đồng Phạm Hùng Đỗ Mười Võ Văn Kiệt Phan Văn Khải
Personal details
Born	(1937-05-05) 5 May 1937 (age 86) Quảng Ngãi Province, French Indochina (now Vietnam)
Political party	Communist Party of Vietnam (1959–2006)
Spouse	Nguyễn Thị Vinh
Children	Trần Thị Minh Anh Trần Tuấn Anh
Alma mater	Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Academy of Politics
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Trần Đức Lương was born in Đức Phổ District in Quảng Ngãi Province, and relocated to Hanoi after graduating from high school in 1954. 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 of Vietnam. Member of the Politburo since June 1996, Trần Đức Lương was elected state president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on September 24, 1997, and re-elected in 2002. On June 24, 2006, Lương announced his resignation (along with Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải). Nguyễn Minh Triết was named to succeed Lương as president.

His retirement was quiet and he only joined the government national programs or state funerals of other senior members of the Communist Party.^{[citation needed]}

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His son, Trần Tuấn Anh was the head of Central Economic Committee until the resignation in 2024.^[2]

In his family, there is another member who works as a social activist is Tran Van Anh- The second granddaughter of Tran Duc Luong. She graduated from Brown University, a private school in US with full scholarship in Economics and politics. Tran Van Anh and other members of the family has low-profile lifestyle and very limited public information of them compared to his son Trần Tuấn Anh. The only information available about the president's heir generation is that his second granddaughter now works for NGO sector under ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam. It's been stated that his family members will not become involved in politics.^{[citation needed]}

Other family members of Trần Đức Lương work in commerce, trading field.^{[citation needed]}