In 1957, Pote Sarasin, a Thai American-educated diplomat of Chinese origins, is appointed the new Prime Minister of Thailand after Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat seizes power in a military coup.
Pote remains in office for one month and five days, after which he resume his post as Secretary General of the now extinct South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). He passed away at the age of 95, but his family remains one of Bangkok’s wealthiest assimilated Chinese families.
