Trần Văn Chương
Trần Văn Chương was South Vietnam's List of ambassadors of Vietnam to [the United States|ambassador to the United States] from 1954 to 1963 and the father of the country's de facto first lady, Madame Nhu. He was also the foreign minister of the Empire of Vietnam, a Japanese puppet state that existed in 1945.
Family life
He married Thân Thị Nam Trân, who was a member of the extended Vietnamese royal family. Her father was Thân Trọng Huề, who became Vietnam's minister for national education, and her mother was a daughter of Emperor Đồng Khánh. They had a son and two daughters, including Lệ Xuân, who became the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of South Vietnam's first President, Ngô Đình Diệm.Chương's family alliances enabled him to rise from being a member of a small law practice in the Cochin-Chinese town of Bạc Liêu in the 1920s to become Vietnam's first Foreign Secretary under his wife's cousin Emperor Bảo Đại, while Japan occupied Vietnam during World War II. His wife Madame Chương was accused by the French secret police of sleeping with Japanese diplomats so her husband was hired by them. He eventually became South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States, but resigned in protest and denounced his government's anti-Buddhist policies after the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids. He proclaimed there was “not one chance in a hundred for victory” over the Communists with his daughter and her husband and brother-in-law in power.