1. Lee Huan was Premier of the Republic of China from 1989 to 1990, serving for one year under former President Lee Teng-hui.
11 Facts About Lee Huan
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Lee Huan was the father of Lee Ching-hua and Diane Lee.
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Lee Huan received his Bachelor of Laws at Fudan University and his Master of Arts in education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Lee Huan received a master's degree in administration and social science from Dankook University in South Korea.
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In 1972, Lee Huan was appointed as Director General of the Department of Organization for the Kuomintang when Chiang Ching-kuo was premier.
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Chiang Ching-kuo ascended to the presidency in 1978, and in July 1987, he tapped his old confidante Lee Huan to be the KMT's new Secretary-General.
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The role Lee Huan played in the lifting of martial law in Taiwan and subsequent reforms to the National Assembly led to assembly members characterizing Lee Huan as one of the Red Guards.
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The "Palace Faction" of the KMT, a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Lee Huan sought to block President Lee's accession to the KMT chairmanship and sideline him as a figurehead.
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At the KMT party congress of July 1988, Lee Huan named 31 members of the Central Committee, 16 of whom were native Taiwanese: for the first time, the native Taiwanese held a majority in what was then a powerful policy-making body.
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Yu Kuo-hwa retired as premier in 1989, and President Lee named Lee Huan to replace him.
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Lee Huan died at the Veterans' General Hospital in Taipei on 2 December 2010 at the age of 93.