Peng Zhen

A hard-line organizer as the CCP mayor of Beijing in the 1950s, his top party position in this city cost him Mao's favor at the onset of the Cultural Revolution. Critical opinion coming out of Bejing attacked Mao's belief that all literature should support the state. Accordingly, forces of Mao attacked adn deposed Peng in April of 1966. Rehabilitated under Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s, Peng served as head of the National People's Congress, where he sought to increase the NPC's power.