User:KTC/sandbox/Li Shengduo
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| Born | Li Shengduo 1859 |
| Died | 1937 (aged 77–78) |
| Nationality | Chinese |
Li Shengduo (Chinese: 李盛鐸) (1859? – 1937), also transliterated as Li Sheng-to, was a Chinese politician and diplomat.
Li was born at Kiukiang, Kiangsi. In 1890 he successfully passed the imperial examination ranking second overall. Subsequently he joined the Hanlin Academy. In 1895 he was appointed Chinese Minister to Japan where he stayed for two years. Upon his return to China he was made Governor of the Metropolitan District. In 1905 he was one of the five ministers sent abroad to study the constitutional forms of government. In that year he travelled extensively in Japan, Europe and America. In 1906 he was Chinese Minister to Belgium ad returned in 1909. After the first revolution in 1911, he was appointed advisor to President Yuan Shih-kai. On June 29, 1917 he was appointed Acting Minister of Agriculture and Commerce and concurrently Director General of the National Conservancy Bureau. On July 17, he resigned on account of General Chang Hsun's monarchical movement, but he was appointed President of the Board of Agriculture of the short lived monarchy. In 1918, when the new Parliament was organized, Mr. Li was elected Speaker of the Senate. It was this Parliament which elected Hsu Shih-Ch'ang president. M. Li was conferred the First Class Tashun Chaho in May 1919 and the First Class Tashun Paokuang Chiaho in October 1919. The new Parlament was dissolved in 1920 after the downfall of the Sufu Club resulting from the Chihli Anfu war.
Category:1859 births
Category:1937 deaths
This article incorporates text from Who's Who in China, 3rd Edition, a publication from 1925, now in the public domain in the United States.