Tien Chung-chin

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Tien Chung-chin
田炯錦
Vice President
Xie Yingzhou
Tai Yen-hui
Preceded byXie Guansheng
Succeeded byTai Yen-hui [zh]
Minister of the Interior
In office
27 March 1958 – 31 May 1960
Preceded byWang Depu [zh]
Succeeded byLien Chen-tung
Minister of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission
In office
30 May 1960 – 14 December 1963
Preceded byLee Yung-hsin
Succeeded byKuo Chi-chiao
In office
22 February 1951 – 25 May 1954
Preceded byYu Ching-tang
Succeeded byLiu Lianke
Minister of Examination
In office
13 July 1948 – May 1950
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byMa Kuo-lin (acting)
Shih Shang-kuan [zh]
Personal details
Born1899 (1899)
University of Illinois

Tien Chung-chin (

government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan, serving until 1950. He took office as minister of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission for the first time in 1951 and remained until 1954. He subsequently served as Minister of the Interior from 1958 to 1960, then returned to the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission until 1963. He died in office as President of the Judicial Yuan
in 1977, having held the position since 1971.

Career

Tien Chung-chin was born in 1899 and known by the

National Constituent Assembly [zh].[1] Tien also retained his Control Yuan position, which included oversight of Gansu and Shaanxi.[2] On 13 July 1948, Tien took office as the inaugural Minister of Examination.[3]

Tien left for Taiwan in 1949.[1] From 1951 to 1954, he led the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission. In 1958, Tien succeeded Wang Depu as interior minister. Upon stepping down from the ministry of the interior in 1960, Tien served on the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission for a second time, until 1963. In 1971, he was nominated to succeed Xie Guansheng as President of the Judicial Yuan. Tien held the office until his death in Taipei on 30 March 1977.[2]

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