Ho Hon

Ho Hon
허헌
Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly
In office 10 September 1948 – 16 August 1951
Vice Chairman	Kim Tal-hyon Yi Yong
Premier	Kim Il Sung
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Yi Yong
Chairman of the Workers' Party of South Korea
1st term
In office 24 November 1946 – 24 June 1949
Vice Chairman	2 served Pak Hon-yong Yi Ki-sok
Preceded by	Pak Hon-yong
Succeeded by	Kim Il Sung
Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Korea
In office 6 September – 12 December 1945
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Personal details
Born	(1885-07-22)July 22, 1885 Korean Empire
Died	16 August 1951(1951-08-16) (aged 66) Chongchon River
Resting place	Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery
Citizenship	North Korean
Nationality	Korean
Political party	Workers' Party of Korea
Children	Ho Jong-suk
Education	Hansung Middle School
Alma mater	Bosung College Meiji University
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	허헌
Hancha	許憲
Revised Romanization	Heo Heon
McCune–Reischauer	Hŏ Hŏn

Ho Hon (Korean: 허헌; 22 July 1885 – 16 August 1951) was a Korean independence activist in Japanese controlled Korea and politician in the early years of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). As a lawyer, he defended independence activists along with Lee In and Kim Byong-ro. In September 1948, following the official proclamation on the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the northern part of the Korean peninsula, he was elected a delegate to the first convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly, the unicameral parliament of North Korea. He also served as the President of Kim Il Sung University. While working as a reunification activist, he drowned in the Chongchon River in August 1951. He was also the father of Ho Jong-suk, a female activist and a politician in North Korea.