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Peng Ming-min

Native name: 彭明敏

Also known as: Peng Mingmin, Phênn Bîng-bín

Place of birth:

Taichū Prefecture Show on Google Maps

Birth date:

1923-08-15 • Birth Sign: Leo

Citizenship:

Taiwan under Japanese rule, Republic of China, Taiwan

Death date:

2022-04-08 (98 years old)

Short Bio:

Peng Ming-min (; 15 August 19238 April 2022) was a Taiwanese democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, legal scholar, and politician. Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy in his native Taiwan, he escaped to Sweden, before taking a post as a university teacher in the United States. After 22 years in exile he returned to become the Democratic Progressive Party's first presidential candidate in Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996.

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Politics and public service politician Taichū Prefecture Taiwan under Japanese rule Republic of China Taiwan