Seni Pramoj (26 May 1905-28 July 1997) was the Democrat Prime Minister of Thailand from 17 September 1945 to 31 January 1946 (succeeding Thawi Bunyaket and preceding Khuang Aphaiwong), from 15 February to 13 March 1975 (succeeding Sanya Dharmasakti and preceding Kukrit Pramoj), and from 20 April to 6 October 1976 (succeeding Kukrit Pramoj and preceding Sangad Chaloryu).
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Seni Pramoj was born in Nakhon Sawam, Siam (now Mueang Nakhon Sawan, Thailand) in 1905, the great-grandson of King Rama II and the brother of Kukrit Pramoj. He studied law at Oxford before working in Thailand's civil court system and serving as Ambassador to America during World War II. After Thailand was pressured by Japan to declare war on the United States in January 1942, Pramoj became a resistance activist, tapping into frozen Thai assets to fund the Free Thai Movement. After the end of the war, Seni served as Prime Minister, but the aristocratic Seni did not get along with Northeastern populists like Tiang Sirikhanth and the Bangkok newcomer Sanguan Tularak. Pramoj joined the royalist and conservative Democrat Party in 1946, and he battled the regent Pridi Phanomyong, blaming him for the king's assassination. Even after leaving the premiership, Seni continued to be a major political powerbroker. He briefly served as prime minister during the 1970s, but the military forced him out of office after the Thammasat University massacre and replaced him with the hardline royalist Tanin Kraivixien. He died in 1997.