Suehiro Nishio

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Suehiro Nishio
西尾 末広
Deputy Prime Minister of Japan
In office 10 March 1948 – 6 July 1948
Prime Minister	Hitoshi Ashida
Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 1 June 1947 – 10 March 1948
Prime Minister	Tetsu Katayama
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 1 May 1942 – 13 November 1972
Constituency	Osaka
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 1 May 1937 – 23 March 1938
Constituency	Osaka
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 21 February 1928 – 21 January 1932
Constituency	Osaka
Personal details
Born	(1891-03-28)March 28, 1891 Shiyūjima Village, Kagawa District, Kagawa, Empire of Japan
Died	October 3, 1981(1981-10-03) (aged 90) Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Suehiro Nishio (西尾 末広, Nishio Suehiro, March 28, 1891 – October 3, 1981) was a Japanese labor activist and party politician whose career extended across the prewar and postwar periods. A long-serving member of the National Diet (15 terms in total),^[1] he was a power broker in the Japan Socialist Party and one of the main leaders of the Right Socialists. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Japan during the cabinet of Hitoshi Ashida, and in January 1960, he led a breakaway faction out of the Japan Socialist Party to found the new Democratic Socialist Party.^[2]