Lee Hsien Loong
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Lee Hsien Loong 1952-, prime minister of Singapore (2004-). The eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew , Singapore's first prime minister, Lee was educated at Cambridge and Harvard while also serving (beginning in 1974) in Singapore's armed forces. Retiring as a brigadier general in 1984, he was elected to parliament and became a member of the leadership of the People's Action party two years later. A cabinet member from 1987 and deputy prime minister from 1990, he became finance minister in 2001. In 2004 he succeeded the retiring Goh Chok Tong as prime minister.
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