Huang Ta-chou

Huang was born in Shanhua, Tainan, during the Japanese rule of Taiwan in 1936. He graduated from National Taiwan University, where Lee Teng-hui was once his instructor,{{cite news|last1=Low|first1=Stephanie|title=KMT breaks it off with Lee Teng-hui|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2001/09/22/0000103986|accessdate=27 June 2016|work=Taipei Times|date=22 September 2001}} with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in agricultural economics in 1960 and a Master of Science (M.S.) in the subject in 1962. Huang then completed advanced studies in the United States at Cornell University, where he earned a second M.S. in rural sociology in 1966 and a Ph.D. in the subject in 1971.{{cite news |title=Who's Who in the ROC |url=http://www.ey.gov.tw/en/Upload/WebArchive/4695/Who's%20Who%20in%20the%20ROC.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020105104/http://www.ey.gov.tw/en/Upload/WebArchive/4695/Who%27s%20Who%20in%20the%20ROC.pdf |archivedate=20 October 2016 |accessdate=5 May 2016 |page=395 |agency=Executive Yuan}}{{cite news|title=Huang takes helm at Grand Hotel|url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/business/2010/04/24/253745/Huang-takes.htm|accessdate=27 June 2016|work=China Post|date=24 April 2010}}{{cite news|title=A New Team In Place|url=http://taiwaninfo.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=103853&ctNode=124|accessdate=27 June 2016|work=Taiwan Today|date=1 July 1990}} After his returning to Taiwan, Huang taught at National Taiwan University.

Huang was admired by Lee Teng-hui, who was helpful throughout Huang's political career. In 1979, Lee then Mayor of Taipei, appointed Huang as the mayoral adviser and the Secretary-General of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan. Two years later, when Lee became the chief executive of Taiwan Province, Huang followed Lee to the Taiwan Provincial Government and was appointed the Deputy Secretary-General. After returning to National Taiwan University in 1984 as a professor, he was appointed the Secretary-General of Taipei City Government in 1987. He became the acting Mayor of Taipei in May 1990, replacing Wu Poh-hsiung. In October, he was appointed Mayor of Taipei by President Lee Teng-hui. During the final year of Huang's term, under the pressure of democratization, the office of mayor became directly elected. Huang is the last Mayor of Taipei to have served via presidential appointment.

In the 1994 Taipei mayoral election, Huang received a late nomination from the Kuomintang.{{cite news|title=KMT leaders ask election delay|url=http://taiwaninfo.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=57311&ctNode=103|accessdate=27 June 2016|work=Taiwan Today/Taiwan Info|date=24 June 1994|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816221349/http://taiwaninfo.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=57311&ctNode=103|archivedate=16 August 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last1=Yu|first1=Susan|title=KMT names incumbent officials|url=http://taiwaninfo.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=58325&ctNode=103|accessdate=27 June 2016|work=Taiwan Info|date=19 August 1994|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816221720/http://taiwaninfo.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=58325&ctNode=103|archivedate=16 August 2016}} Though he secured the party's endorsement and support from Lee,{{cite news|last1=Yu|first1=Susan|title=Parties push themes, target the undecided|url=http://www.taiwantoday.tw/fp.asp?xItem=60204&CtNode=451|accessdate=27 June 2016|work=Taiwan Today|date=25 September 1994|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915100234/http://www.taiwantoday.tw/fp.asp?xItem=60204&CtNode=451|archivedate=15 September 2016}} Huang did not win the election. The loss could be partly ascribed to the split between the Kuomintang and Chinese New Party within the Pan-Blue Coalition. Although the entire Pan-Blue Coalition gained more votes, Huang only received 25.89% of the voter turnout, allowing Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian to be elected in a traditional pro-Chinese unification city and Mainlander stronghold.{{cite news|last1=Sheng|first1=Virginia|title=Parties exchange barbs in Taoyuan County race|url=http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=14997&ctNode=122|accessdate=27 June 2016|work=Taiwan Today|date=21 February 1997|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915110103/http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=14997&ctNode=122|archivedate=15 September 2016}}{{cite journal|last1=Copper|first1=John F.|title=Taiwan's 1994 Gubernatorial and Mayoral Elections|journal=Asian Affairs|date=1995|volume=22|issue=2|pages=97–118|doi=10.1080/00927678.1995.9933701 |jstor=30172242}}

After he lost the mayoral election, Huang was appointed the Minister of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission in June 1996, and a Minister without Portfolio in 1997.

He was appointed National Policy Advisor by President Ma Ying-jeou in 2009.

Apart from politics, Huang also contributed a lot in sports. He was elected the President of Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee in 1997, followed by becoming the commissioner of Chinese Professional Baseball League upon invitation in 1998.

After his session in the Olympic Committee in 2005, he returned to his academic research in agricultural science. He invented a new method of nurturing strawberry. He is currently a professor of Toko University in Taiwan.

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