What did Ngô Đình Diệm consider as a career before entering politics?
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Ngô Đình Diệm, the first president of South Vietnam, had considered the priesthood as a career before entering politics. He was a member of the Catholic Church and studied for the priesthood at the seminary of Saint Joseph in Saigon. However, he left the seminary in 1933 to become a politician.
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