Biography in English

Ho Ch'eng-chün (20 June 1882-7 May 1961), was a military officer and protege of Huang Hsing who became a leading intermediary in negotiations with independent generals and among competing factions in the Kuomintang. He held such posts as governor of Hupeh (1929-32; 1937-38), director of the Generalissimo's Wuhan headquarters, and director general of the courts-martial (1939-46).

Little is known of Ho Ch'eng-chün's background or childhood except that he was born into a prosperous family in Suihsien, Hupeh. At the age of 14 he applied to a military preparatory school in Hupeh, but was rejected because he was too young and because he could not meet the required physical standards. At the age of 19 he won first place in the examinations for the district school, and the education commissioner of Hupeh province recommended him for study at the Ching-hsin Academy. After the imperial examination system was abolished in 1905, the Ching-hsin and the Liang-hu academies were merged to form a new institution. When Ho was a student there, he was influenced by Huang Hsing (q.v.), who had returned from Japan to attempt to convert students and army officers to the anti-Manchu revolutionary cause.

In 1907 Ho Ch'eng-chün won a Hupeh government scholarship for study in Japan. He enrolled at the Shimbu Gakko in Tokyo. After graduation, he was admitted to the infantry course at the Shikan Gakko [military academy], where he was a member of the fifth class. He joined the T'ung-meng-hui under the sponsorship of Huang Hsing. After graduation in 1909, Ho Ch'eng-chün returned to China, where he planned to join the staff of VVu Lu-chen, who was serving as border defense commissioner at Yenki in Manchuria. However, government-sponsored scholars returning from abroad were required to serve in their native provinces, and Ho therefore went to the Hupeh training bureau at Wuchang. In 1910 Wu Lu-chen, then commanding the 6th Brigade, which was stationed at Paoting, Chihli (Hopei), requested that Ho be assigned to head a regiment under his command. The request was refused, and Ho was assigned instead to the personnel division of the Board of War at Peking. While serving in that key office in the highest military organ of the imperial government, he established new contacts with anti-Manchu revolutionaries in north China.

After the Wuchang revolt in October 1911, Ho Ch'eng-chün served in the First Army, commanded by Yin-ch'ang, the minister of war. Ho sought to leave the government forces but friends dissuaded him, saying that his resignation would be regarded as a sign that he intended to join the rebels. He reluctantly returned to Peking, where he learned that Wu Lu-chen had been appointed governor of Shansi. He decided to join Wu and was making travel arrangements when word came that W^u had been assassinated. Fearing for his own safety. Ho immediately went to Tientsin and then joined Huang Hsing at Shanghai. Huang sent him to Nanking to assist the revolutionaries in establishing a provisional central government. After Sun Yat-sen's inauguration as provisional president on 1 January 1912, Huang Hsing was made minister of war. Huang named Ho Ch'eng-chün his chief adjutant. When Yuan Shih-k'ai assumed the presidency and the provisional government was moved to Peking, Huang Hsing remained at Nanking in charge of the rear headquarters of the revolutionary armies in central China. Ho continued to be Huang's chief subordinate. The rear headquarters at Nanking was abolished in June, and Ho went to Hupeh. In November, when Huang Hsing was named director general of the Hankow-Canton and Szechwan railroads, he sent Ho to Peking to serve as his liaison officer. Ho remained at Peking after Huang resigned in January 1913.

Ho left north China in March 1913 and went to Shanghai, where he served Huang Hsing as chief of staff during the so-called second revolution. When that move against Yuan Shih-k'ai failed, he was among those who fled to Japan. In the summer of 1914, after Sun Yat-sen had reorganized the revolutionary party as the Chung-hua ko-ming-tang, Ho Ch'eng-chün covertly returned to China to organize a new uprising against Yuan Shih-k'ai; he went to Shanghai. Ch'en Ch'i-mei (q.v.) arrived shortly thereafter, and the two men became close associates. Yuan Shih-k'ai died in June 1916, and Li Yuan-hung succeeded to the presidency. When Li invited Huang Hsing to visit Peking, Huang sent Ho to north China to assess the situation. He remained there for a few weeks, but then returned to Shanghai at the end of October 1916 because Huang Hsing had died.

In 1917, after Sun Yat-sen's military government was organized in south China, Ho Ch'engchun went to Canton. Sun ordered him to mobilize support in the Yangtze valley. Ho went secretly to Shasi, Hupeh, but he was prevented from carrying out his mission by Wang Chan-yuan, the military governor of Hupeh. Ho and his troops marched to Ch'angte, where he joined Li Shu-ch'eng, the commissioner of western Hunan. In March 1918, when Peiyang forces from north China moved into Hunan, Ch'eng Ch'ien (q.v.), the commander in chief of the Hunan army, called on Li Shu-ch'eng and Ho Ch'eng-chün for assistance. They complied, but Ho was outflanked by Peiyang forces. In May 1918 he left Hunan and went to Canton. He then went to Shanghai, where Sun Yat-sen had moved.

Ho remained at Shanghai until the Peiyang forces were expelled from Hunan in October 1920. Sun Yat-sen then sent him to Hunan, where he gained the political support of T'an Yen-k'ai. However, T'an soon was forced from power by Chao Heng-t'i. Ho went to Hunan again in mid- 1921 to participate in a military drive against Wang Chan-yuan in Hupeh. That move failed when Wu P'ei-fu (q.v.) came to the aid of W^ang Chan-yuan.

Sun Yat-sen, as a part of his attempt to strengthen his political alliances in the south, employed Ho Ch'eng-chün as a personal emissary to gain support for the Kuomintang, sending him first to Yunnan province, where T'ang Chi-yao, a schoolmate of Ho in Japan, had consolidated control early in 1922. Although Ho spent three months in Kunming, the provincial capital, he failed to win support for Sun. He was more successful in Fukien, where he helped to prepare the way for the establishment of a temporary base of power for the Kuomintang. In 1923 and 1924 Ho held several military commands under Hsü Ch'ung-chih and T'an Yen-k'ai. In August 1925, after the death of Sun Yat-sen, he returned to Canton and assisted Chiang Kai-shek in the eastern expedition against Ch'en Chiung-ming. After the expeditionary forces had occupied Waichow, Ch'en's principal base in eastern Kwangtung, Ho returned to Shanghai.

The Northern Expedition was launched in July 1926, and Chiang Kai-shek sent Ho to Shanghai in an attempt to gain the support of Sun Ch'uan-fang (q.v.), who then controlled the lower Yangtze provinces. Ho, who had been a schoolmate of Sun Ch'uan-fang at the Shikan Gakko, urged Sun to ally himself with the National Revolutionary Army of Chiang Kai-shek for a joint attack on W'u P'ei-fu, Sun's sometimes superior officer. Sun believed that his position was vulnerable because of the geographical proximity of the northern generals, and he decided not to join forces with Chiang Kai-shek.

After the Nationalist forces had captured Wuhan in October 1926, Chiang Kai-shek assigned Ho to help organize the Hupeh Political Council. For a time. Ho served as a member of that body and as pacification commissioner of northern Hupeh, but he came into conflict with the Hunanese general T'ang Sheng-chih (q.v.) and was forced to withdraw from the area. After Chiang Kai-shek broke relations with Wuhan and ertablished a regime at Nanking, Ho Ch'eng-chün became a member of the Military Affairs Commission at Nanking and senior adviser in the general headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army.

In the early summer of 1927 Ho was assigned to win the support of Yen Hsi-shan (q.v.) in Shansi province. Although the northern sections of the Peking-Hankow railroad were then under the control of the Fengtien forces {see Chang Tso-lin), Ho succeeded in reaching Tientsin. Han Lun-ch'ün, a Fengtien army commander who had been a schoolmate of Ho, arranged for him to meet Chang Hsueh-liang (q.v.) and others at Peking. Chang Hsuehliang lent Ho his private railway car for the trip to see Yen at Taiyuan. Yen already had shown an equivocal attitude toward his alliance with Chang Tso-lin, and Ho Ch'eng-chün's negotiations with Yen proceeded smoothly. Soon after the discussions, Yen became.e northern commander of the National Revolutionary Army. After receiving news of Chiang Kaishek's temporary retirement, Ho returned to central China, stopping at Peking to confer with Chang Hsueh-liang and Han Lun-ch'ün about Manchuria's possible acceptance of Nationalist rule.

When the Northern Expedition was resumed in April 1928, Ho Ch'eng-chün, as director of Chiang Kai-shek's Hsuchow headquarters, utilized his ties with officers in the opposition forces of Sun Ch'uan-fang and Chang Tsung-ch'ang to contribute substantially to the Nationalist campaign in the Hsuchow sector.

After Chiang Kai-shek's First Group Army clashed with the Japanese in the Tsinan Incident of May 1928, Chiang sent Hsiung Shih-hui to negotiate with the Japanese, but Hsiung made little headway. On 9 May, Ho replaced Hsiung in the negotiations. The Japanese commander, after presenting terms that Ho found unacceptable, detained him until 12 May. After going to Yenchow for discussions with Chiang Kai-shek, Ho returned to Hsuchow.

The Northern Expedition bypassed Tsinan; Ho Ch'eng-chün was ordered to proceed from Hsuchow by sea to Tientsin and Peking. He negotiated with Wang Shih-chen, Hsiung Hsiling, Yen Hsi-shan, and representatives of the Fengtien Army to save Peking from the ravages of war. In the end, the Fengtien forces withdrew eastward. Yen Hsi-shan maintained order in the evacuated areas, and on 6 June his Shansi army occupied Peking. On 8 July 1928 Ho accompanied representatives of Chang Hsuehliang to a meeting with Chiang Kai-shek to discuss Manchuria's possible acceptance of Nationalist rule. Arrangements were made, and in December 1928 the Nationalist flag was raised over Manchuria.

After Chiang Kai-shek assumed the chairmanship of the National Government at Nanking in 1928, Ho Ch'eng-chün became a chief military counselor. His efforts to induce Liu Hsiang in Szechwan and the Kweichow generals to support the National Government met with little success. When the Kwangsi military officers threatened Chiang Kai-shek's authority in February 1929, Ho was ordered to go to Peiping, where the Kwangsi general Pai Ch'ung-hsi (q.v.) was based. Ho persuaded divisional commanders in north China to remain loyal to Nanking. Chang Hsueh-liang assisted him by ordering troops under Yu Hsueh-chung to threaten Pai Ch'unghsi's positions in the area. Pai was forced out of northern China.

Ho Ch'eng-chün was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang at the Third National Congress in March 1929. In April he was appointed provincial governor of Hupeh. New crises arose, and Ho had to contend with political maneuvers in both north China and Manchuria. Yen Hsishan regarded the presence of Ho Ch'eng-chün and T'ang Sheng-chih in north China as a barrier to the expansion of his own power. Ho visited Yen Hsi-shan at Taiyuan in August 1929 and satisfied Yen's demands regarding the control and distribution of personnel in both Shansi and Hopei. In Manchuria, China and the Soviet Union were involved in a dispute about Chang Hsueh-liang's seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Chang invited Ho to come to Manchuria for a consultation so that he could coordinate his moves with those of Nanking. With Chiang Kai-shek's consent, Ho left for Mukden on 1 7 August and remained with Chang Hsuehliang for two weeks before returning to Peiping. But he was unable to affect the outcome of the Manchurian situation; Soviet military action led to the restoration of the status quo ante on the rail line.

Ho Ch'eng-chün visited Shansi in September 1929 to report on the Manchurian situation to Yen Hsi-shan. Yen seemed to be somewhat evasive in dealing with him. The reason became clear in October when the possibility of an alliance between Yen Hsi-shan and Feng Yü-hsiang (q.v.) became known. Ho then went to Chengchow to win the support of T'ang Sheng-chih's forces, reported to Chiang Kai-shek at Nanking, and on 20 October went to Kaifeng to direct operations against Feng Yü-hsiang's forces. After Feng's troops had been defeated, T'ang Sheng-chih on 5 December 1929 announced his intention to oppose Chiang Kai-shek. Ho escaped from Kaifeng, made his way to Hsuchow, and then went to Tsingtao and Nanking. In February 1930 Ho finally went to Wuchang to assume the governorship of Hupeh province, to which he had been appointed ten months earlier. He also became the director of Chiang Kai-shek's Wuhan headquarters. Two months later, Li Tsung-jen joined the northern coalition of Feng Yü-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan in opposing Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang appointed Ho Ying-ch'in to succeed Ho Ch'eng-chün as director of the W'uhan headquarters, and Ho Ch'eng-chün was assigned responsibility for operations along the Peking-Hankow rail line. He assumed overall command of several armies in that sector. These armies had not been under Nationalist command for long, and their loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek was uncertain. Because Ho Ch'eng-chün had long-standing associations with their commanders, he was successful in holding these armies on Chiang's side. Ho's assignment was to defeat Feng Yü-hsiang's forces along the rail line and to join the National Government forces at Chengchow. His armies began their attack in May 1930, with some initial success. However, Feng's and Ho's troops soon reached a stalemate. In mid-August, National Government forces on the eastern front captured Tsinan, enabling Chiang Kai-shek to shift troops to the Peking-Hankow railroad front. With Ho Ch'eng-chün holding a major command, the Nationalists began a general offensive on 11 September 1930, and by the end of that month, the armies of Feng Yü-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan were in retreat. In the meantime, however, the Chinese Communists seized the opportunity to expand their territorial bases in the central Yangtze provinces. By the time Ho returned to his provincial post at Wuchang, they had established themselves in almost half of Hupeh's 70 hsien. Campaigns against the Communists in 1930-31 had little success in Hupeh. In 1931 a severe flood inundated much of the province. Ho Ch'eng-chün held both civil and military responsibility in Hupeh; he now requested that he be relieved of one of his functions. In March 1932 Hsia Tou-yin was named to succeed him as provincial governor. In June, the military structure in central China was reorganized, with Ho becoming pacification commissioner of Hupeh and commander in chief for military operations against the Communists in the Hupeh-Anhwei area. He held the latter post until 1937 and participated in anti-Communist campaigns in the Hupeh-Anhwei area, in Hunan, and in Kiangsi.

In March 1933, when the Japanese attacked the Great Wall passes, Chiang Kai-shek sent Ho to Paoting to assume charge of the headquarters there. After the Tangku truce was signed on 31 May, Ho returned to Wuchang. In 1935 Ho Ch'eng-chün was reelected to the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. He also became pacification commissioner for the Honan-Hupeh border district. In the winter of 1936, the office of the Hupeh pacification commissioner was renamed the Generalissimo's headquarters. Ho continued to be its director.

After the outbreak of war with Japan in 1937, the National Government moved from Nanking to Wuhan in October. The provincial governments of the Yangtze region were reorganized in November, and Ho again became governor of Hupeh. In June 1938 he was succeeded as provincial governor by Ch'en Ch'eng (q.v.). The National Government was forced to evacuate the Wuhan cities in October 1938, and the Generalissimo's Wuhan headquarters was abolished. In January 1939, at the Nationalist wartime capital of Chungking, Ho was appointed director general of the courts-martial. He held that post throughout the remaining war years.

In 1946, at the age of 64, Ho Ch'eng-chün retired from military service. He returned to Hupeh, where he was elected speaker of the provincial assembly. In the winter of 1948, he was injured in a fall and underwent medical treatment in Shanghai. He moved to Hong Kong in the spring of 1949 and to Taiwan in December. In March 1960 he was given the honor of transmitting the certificate of election to Vice President Ch'en Ch'eng. On 7 May 1961, he died in Taipei. His book, Pa-shih hui-i [reminescences at eighty] was published in Taipei in 1961.

Biography in Chinese

何成浚 字:雪竹

何成浚(1882.620—1961.5.7),军官,原是黄兴的旧部下,在各派军人、国民党内各对立派系的谈判中担任主要调解人。1929—1932年、1937—1938年先后任湖北省主席,1939—1946年任蒋介石武汉行营主任和军事法庭法
官。

何成浚,湖北省随县人,他的家庭背景和幼年生活不详,仅知他出身富裕家庭。十四岁时报考湖北陆军预备学堂,因年幼体弱未录取。十九岁时,在县学考试列首名,湖北提学使推荐他进清心书院。1905年,废科举后,清心、两
湖书院合并改为新式学校,何成浚为该校学生,受到黄兴的影响。黄兴从日本回国后,争取学生和军官从事反满革命活动。

1907年,何成浚获湖北官费去日本留学,进东京振武学校,毕业后,进第五期士官学校步兵科。他经黄兴介绍加入同盟会。

1909年毕业回国后,拟投吴禄贞部,吴当时任延吉边防使。根据当时规定,回国官费留学生应回原籍工作,于是他去武昌的湖北督练公所供职。1910年,吴禄贞任第六镇统制驻保定、邀何成浚前去任团长,何未就而去北京任陆
军部人事司职务。在这清政府最高军事机构的重要机构任职时,他与华北的反满势力取得了新联系。

辛亥革命后,何成浚在陆军大臣荫昌指挥的第一军中任职,他原想脱离清军职务,但为他的朋友所劝阻,说此举会被认为是想去投效叛军。他不得已重回北京,在那里得知吴禄贞已任山西巡抚,决定前去投奔,正准备启程时传来
吴遇害的消息。何害怕自己安全不保,立即去天津,后去上海投效黄兴。黄兴派他去南京协助革命军,筹建临时中央政府。

1912年元旦,孙逸仙任临时大总统,黄兴为陆军总长,黄任何成浚为副官长。袁世凯任总统后,临时政府迁往北京,黄兴任留守,负责南京的革命军队伍,何仍为黄兴的主要助手。留守办事处于6月撤消,何成浚去湖北。11月,
黄兴任粤汉、四川铁路总办,派何成浚去北京当他的联络官。1913年1月黄兴
辞职后他仍留在北京。

1913年8月,何成浚离华北去上海,在二次革命中任黄兴的参谋总长。反袁失败,他与多人逃往日本。1914年夏,孙逸仙改组革命党为中华革命党。何成浚秘密回国重组反袁起义,他到了上海,陈其美不久也到了上海,两人密切
合作。1916年6月袁世凯死去,黎元洪任总统,邀请黄兴来北京,黄派何成浚先去北京观察情况,但在几周后于1916年10月回上海时,黄兴已去世。

1917年,孙逸仙在南方组成军政府,何成浚去广州。孙派他发动长江一带的支持力量。他秘密到了湖北沙市,但为湖北督军王占元所阻,未能完成任务。何率军到常徳,与防御湘西的警备司令李书城会合。1918年8月,北洋军进入
湖南,湘军司令程潜吁请李书城和何成浚的协助,他们都承允了,但何成浚为北洋军击败。1918年5月,何离湖南去广州,又去上海会见孙逸仙。

在1920年10月北洋军被逐出湖南之前,何成浚一直留在上海。孙派他去湖南,他在那里取得谭延闿的政治支持。谭不久被赵恒惕赶下台,1921年中期,何又去湖南,参加把王占元赶出湖北的军事行动,但因吴佩孚赶来援助王占
元,此举未能成功。

孙逸仙为加强南方政治联合计划,派何成浚为特使去争取对国民党的支持。他先去云南,何在日本时的同学唐继尧自1922年来已巩固了在该省的控制。他虽在昆明滞留三个月,但仍未能取得唐对孙的支持。他在福建比较成
功,为国民党在福建建立临时根据地打下了基础。1923—1924年间,何成多次在许崇智、谭延闿部队中任职,1925年8月,孙逸仙去世后,他去广州协助蒋介石东征陈炯明,攻占陈炯明粤东基地惠州后,他回到上海。

1926年7月北伐开始,蒋介石派何成浚去上海联络控制长江下游的孙传芳,何与孙是士官学校的同学。何希望孙传芳与蒋介石的国民革命军一致进攻一度曾是上级的吴佩孚。孙传芳认为他的地理位置离北军太近,易受攻击,因
此不肯与蒋介石联合。

1926年10月国民革命军攻克武汉。蒋介石令何成浚筹建湖北政务委员会。何曾任该会委员和鄂北绥靖主任,但与湖南军人唐生智发生了冲突,被迫撤出该地区。蒋介石和武汉政府破裂后在南京成立政府。何成浚任南京军事委员会
委员,兼国民革命军总司令部高级顾问。

1927年夏初,何被派去争取山西阎锡山的支持。当时京汉铁路北段为奉军控制,他仍设法到达天津,经士官学校同学奉军将领韩麟春的帮助,得以在北京见到张学良等人。张学良用他的专车送他到太原去见阎锡山。阎锡山对张作霖
的联合原已有动摇迹象,所以何成浚这次谈判进行得很顺利。何阎会商后不久,阎锡山就担任了国民革命军北方总司令。他们听到蒋介石暂时下野的消息后,何成浚回华中时,在北京停留与张学良、韩麟春商谈了东北承认国民党领
导的可能性。

1928年8月北伐又开始,作为蒋介石徐州行营主任的何成浚、利用他和孙传芳、张宗昌部下的关系,对国民革命军在徐州的战役起了很大作用。

蒋介石的第一集团军于1928年5月在济南事件中与日军发生冲突,蒋介石派熊式辉与日方谈判,但无进展。5月9日,何成浚继熊与日方谈判,日军司令提出不能接受的条件后,将何扣留至5月12日才获释放。他到兖州和蒋介
商谈后,回到徐州。

北伐军绕过济南,何成浚奉命从徐州由海路去天津及北京。他与王士珍、熊希龄、阎锡山及奉军代表商谈,使北京能免于战祸。奉军撤回东北,撤出后由阎锡山维持北京治安。

1928年7月8日,何成浚陪同张学良的代表去会见蒋介右,商谈东北接受国民党领导事宜。协议达成后,1928年12月东北挂起国民政府旗帜。

1928年,蒋介石任南京国民政府主席,何成浚任军事总参议。他劝四川的刘湘和贵州军人支持国民政府,但没有取得什么成功。当桂系军阀威胁了蒋介石的权力时,蒋介石命何成浚去北平,桂系军阀白崇禧当时在该地。何劝华北的一些师长效忠南京。张学良命令于学忠的部队对白崇禧施加压力来协助何成浚。白崇禧被迫退出华北。

1929年3月,国民党第三次全国代表大会中,何被选为中央执行委员,4月任湖北省主席。新的危机出现了,何不得不与华北及东北的政治变动作斗争。阎锡山认为何成浚、唐生智的势力出现于华北地区是他发展势力的一种
障碍。何成浚于1929年8月去太原访问阎锡山,在山西、河北的人事安排上满足了阎的要求。在东北,中国和苏联为了张学良夺取中东路而发生争执。张学良邀何成浚去东北会商以便与南京方面协调行动。何成浚经蒋介石同意,于8月17日去沈阳,与张学良会晤两周后回北平。但他未能改变东北的局势,苏联采取军事行动恢复了中东路的原状。

1929年9月,何成浚去山西向阎锡山报告东北情势。阎锡山对他的态度不甚明朗。10月间阎冯联盟已公开,情况就很清楚了。何成浚去郑州争取唐生智,并向南京的蒋介石报告。10月20日到开封指挥对冯玉祥军的战事。冯军失败后,唐生智又于1929年12月5日宣布反对蒋介石。何成浚由开封逃出,经徐州、青岛回到南京。

1930年2月,他终无去武昌就十个月前已任命的湖北省主席之职、兼武汉待营主任。两个月后,李宗仁参加了阎冯反蒋联盟。蒋调何应钦代何成浚为武汉行营主任,派何成浚负责指挥京汉路战事。他担任该地区的几个军的全面指
挥。这些军队归属蒋介石为期不久,他们对蒋的忠诚尚不能肯定。但因何浚与这些将领都有老关系,所以能将这些军队控制在蒋介石的一边。何成浚的使命是击败冯玉祥军而与其它国民党部队在郑州会师。何的军队于1930年5月开
始进攻,起初小有胜利,不久双方相峙不下。8月中旬,国民党军队攻下济南后,使蒋介石能把军队调到京汉线。何成浚为总指挥,国民党军于1930年9月11日发动总攻,月终,阎冯军队撤退。

当时,共产党趁机扩大了长江中游各省的根据地。当何回武昌的省主席原任时,共产党已控制了全省七十个县的大约半数。1930—1931年反共战争在湖北没有取得成功。1931年湖北发生水灾,何成浚负有民政、军事两重职责,他
要求解除其中一项职务。1932年8月夏斗寅接替他任湖北省主席。6月,华中军事机构调整,何成浚任湖北绥靖公署主任及鄂皖剿共总司令,他担任后一职务一直到1937年,在湖北、安徽、湖南、江西剿共。

1933年8月,日军攻长城各口,蒋介石派他去保定,主持该地行营。5月31日塘沽协定签订后,何回武昌。1935年再次当选为中央执行委员,任豫、鄂边区绥靖公署主任。1936年冬,湖北绥靖公署改组为委员长行营,何仍任行营主任。

1937年中日战争爆发后,10月,国民政府由南京迁往武汉,11月,长江各省改组,何仍任湖北省主席。1938年6月由陈诚继任。1938年国民政府被迫从武汉撤退,武汉委员长行营撤消。1939年1月,国民政府迁到重庆,何成浚任军
法执行总监,他在战时始终担任此职。

1946年,何成浚年六十四岁,辞去军职回湖北,当选为省参议会议长。1948年冬,他跌伤后在上海治疗。1949年春去香港,12月去台湾。1960年8月,他被指定为陈诚授副总统当选证书。1961年7月死在台北,他的《八十回忆》
于1961年在台北出版。

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