Ku Cheng-ting

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ku.

Ku Cheng-ting (Chinese: 谷正鼎; 24 October 1903 – 1 November 1974) was a Chinese-born politician, also known by the courtesy name Ming-shu (銘樞).

Ku Cheng-ting
谷正鼎
Ku pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries (1941)
Members of the 1st Legislative Yuan
In office 1948–1974
Constituency	Guizhou Province
Personal details
Born	(1903-10-24)24 October 1903 Guizhou Province, Qing China
Died	1 November 1974(1974-11-01) (aged 71) Taiwan
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang
Spouse	Pi Yi-shu
Relations	Ku Cheng-lun Ku Cheng-kang (brothers)
Children	5
Occupation	Politician

Ku was a native of Anshun. His older brothers were Ku Cheng-kang and Ku Cheng-lun. After graduating from the University of Berlin, Ku Cheng-ting enrolled at the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in 1925. He was appointed to the Control Yuan in 1932, and became a member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang in 1937. Ku also served in several other posts during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After the war ended, he and his wife Pi Yi-shu were elected to the Constituent National Assembly, which ratified the Constitution of the Republic of China. After the constitution went into effect, both were elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948. The couple relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War. In 1952, Ku returned to a committee posting within the Kuomintang. He died in Taipei of cancer in 1974. Ku had 5 children: Anna Marie, Nelson, George, John, and Peter.^[1]