Pote Sarasin served as foreign minister from 1949 to 1950 and then served as ambassador to the United States.
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10 Facts About Pote Sarasin
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Pote Sarasin served as the first Secretary General of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization from September 1957 until 1963.
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Pote Sarasin was born in 1905 to Hainam rice merchants and landowners at Bangkok.
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Pote Sarasin's father Thian Hee Sarasin was a doctor and rice merchant.
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Pote Sarasin studied law at Wilbraham Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts and Middle Temple in London and was admitted to the English Bar.
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Close friend of the temporarily disempowered prime minister Phibunsongkhram, Pote Sarasin provided financial aid to the field marshal after his release from prison in 1946.
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In return Phibun had Pote Sarasin appointed deputy minister of foreign affairs in 1948.
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Pote Sarasin resigned from the premiership that same month to resume his post as Secretary General of SEATO.
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Pote Sarasin's sons are Pong, deputy minister of Thailand and a leading businessman and, Police General Pao, who once served as the Chief of the Royal Thai Police, and Arsa, who, like his father, was one of the former foreign ministers of Thailand and was serving as the late King Bhumibol's Principal Private Secretary.
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All three sons–Pong, Arsa and Pao Pote Sarasin had all served as the Deputy Prime Ministers of Thailand.
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