Su Nan-cheng

Taiwanese politician (1936–2014)

蘇南成

Mayor of KaohsiungIn office
30 May 1985 – 15 June 1990Preceded byHsu Shui-tehSucceeded byWu Den-yihMayor of TainanIn office
20 December 1977 – 30 May 1985Preceded byChang Li-tangSucceeded byChen Kuei-miao (acting)
Lin Wen-hsiung Personal detailsBorn(1936-01-14)14 January 1936
Tainan Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of JapanDied2 September 2014(2014-09-02) (aged 78)
Tainan, TaiwanNationalityTaiwanesePolitical partyKuomintang
(1952 – 1972; 1982 – 1999)Alma materNational Cheng Kung UniversityOccupationPoliticianProfessionAccountant

Su Nan-cheng (Chinese: 蘇南成; pinyin: Sū Nánchéng; 14 January 1936 – 2 September 2014) was a Taiwanese politician and Senior Advisor to ROC President Chen Shui-bian.^[1] He was a mayor of Tainan, serving from 1977 to 1985, and an appointed mayor of Kaohsiung, serving from 1985 to 1990. He was the speaker of the ROC National Assembly in 1999. Su was in the Kuomintang and was part of the faction that supported the Taiwanese localization movement. He was expelled from the KMT twice: first in 1972 for violating a party resolution and running for Tainan City Mayor as an independent; second in 1999 for forwarding a term-extension amendment in the National Assembly against party orders.^[2] In 2003, Su openly supported DPP candidate Chen Shui-bian in the 2004 presidential election.^[3]

Tainan mayoralty

Su was elected the mayor of Tainan in 1976 as an independent candidate. In 1981, he was nominated by the Kuomintang to run again and was re-elected. He served from 1977 to 1985, until he was appointed the mayor of Kaohsiung. During his term as Tainan mayor, he was recognized by the Ramon Magsaysay Award.^[4] He ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Tainan in 2001 as an independent candidate, and was elected a city council member instead.^[5]

He died of heart failure in 2014.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b 蘇南成病逝疑心衰竭 (in Chinese). Central News Agency. September 2, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
^ Chen, Lauren (October 31, 1999). "KMT confirms former Assembly Speaker must go". Taipei Times. p. 1.
^ "大選／前後任三縣長挺扁　蘇南成：支持扁延續本土政權", ETtoday, December 14, 2003.
^ The Ramon Magsaysay Awardees by Year – 1980's, Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation.
^ Huang, Sandy (January 27, 2002). "Su Nan-cheng stages political comeback". Taipei Times. p. 3.

References

重修台灣省通志 Ed. Liu Ning-yen. Taipei City: Taiwan Province Document Council (台灣省文獻委員會), 1994

Government offices
Preceded by Chang Li-tang	Mayor of Tainan 1977–1985	Succeeded by Chen Kuei-miao (acting)
Preceded by Hsu Shui-teh	Mayor of Kaohsiung 1985–1990	Succeeded by Wu Den-yih