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in Laos. A remarkable career followed. After his outstanding performance, where he scored the highest mark in competitive tests similar to
American civil service examinations, he was appointed a district administrator. Then in 1941 he was appointed Governor (Chao Khoueng) of the Province Houakhong
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were no longer represented in the new pro-American government. After taking up office, Sananikone and his ministers shifted Lao policy to the right, dissolved the
National Assembly, and denounced the
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from 1963 to 1965, and from 1968 to 1974. In May 1975 he left for France after the communist takeover. In
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commissioned him to form a cabinet. In this capacity, as Prime
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province) and later reached the highest administrative hierarchy with the rank of Chao
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into one of the most prominent families in Laos, in a political, economic and social sense. He graduated from
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in June 1950. It was during that Year, where he and other former
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