Tawee Bunyaket was a Thai

Thailand

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 politician and the prime minister

Prime minister

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 for a short term.

After studying at the King's College

King's College, Cambridge

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 (England) and the École nationale supérieure d'Agronomie de Grignon

Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon

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 (France), he started to work as a Government Official at the Thai Ministry of Agriculture. On June 24, 1932 he joined the coup group of the 1932 coup, the People's Party. He became Secretary General in the cabinet of Field Marshal Phibunsongkhram

Plaek Pibulsonggram

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, and Minister of Education in the cabinet of Khuang Abhaiwongse

Khuang Abhaiwongse

Major Luang Khuang Abhaiwongse was three times the prime minister of Thailand.Khuang was born in Battambang now belonging to Cambodia as the son of the Siamese governor of the province Battambang, Chao Phraya Abhayabhubet...

. When Khuang resigned directly after the end of World War II, he was elected as prime minister on August 31, 1945 and formed the 12th Thai administration. However he was only chosen because the preferred candidate Seni Pramoj

Seni Pramoj

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, chief of the Free Thai Movement

Free Thai Movement

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, wasn't available. 17 days after his election, on September 17, he resigned to free the post for Seni Pramoj.

Later he became President of the Constitutional Drafting Committee during the government of Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata

Sarit Dhanarajata

Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat , was a Thai career soldier who staged a coup in 1957, thereafter serving as Thailand's Prime Minister until his death in 1963. He was born in Bangkok, but grew up in his mother's home town in Lao-speaking northeastern Thailand and considered himself a northeasterner...

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