Huang Ta-chou (Chinese: 黃大洲; Pinyin: Huáng Dàzhōu; born 1936) was a Taiwan politician. He was the former mayor of Taipei[1] and the chairman of the Chinese Taipei Olympic committee.[2]
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Huang was born in Shanhua, Tainan in Taiwan, Empire of Japan in 1936. He graduated in National Taiwan University, and Lee Teng-hui, the later President of Taiwan, was once his instructor during that time. He received his PhD in agriculture in Cornell University, U.S., in 1971. He used to be a professor in National Taiwan University after he went back to Taiwan.
Later on, Huang also participated in politics. He was admired by Lee Teng-hui, who was helpful throughout Huang's political career. At 1979, Lee was the Mayor of Taipei and appointed him as the Advidor of Mayor and the Executive Secretary of Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan. Two years later, Lee became the chief executive of Taiwan Province, he followed Lee to Taiwan Province Government and was appointed the Deputy Secretary-General. He went back to National Taiwan University in 1984 as a professor, before he was appointed the Secretary-General of Taipei City Government in 1987. He became the acting Mayor of Taipei in May, 1990, to replace Wu Poh-hsiung. He then became the official Mayor of Taipei in October, following the nomination of by Lee, the President of Taiwan at that time.
He was the Mayor of Taipei from 1990 to 1994. During that time, under the pressure of democratization, a political form was carried out and the Mayor of Taipei became directly elected, instead of appointed by the President, in 1994. Huang is the last appointed Mayor of Taipei.
In the 1994 Taipei mayoral election, Kuomintang at first was indecisive to determine their representative. Lastly, Huang received the nomination from his party under the support of President Lee Teng-hui. Despite Kuomintang's nomination, it is not engouh for Huang to win the election. His failure could partly ascribed to the split between the Kuomintang and Chinese New Party within the Pan-Blue Coalition in the election. Although the entire Pan-Blue Coalition attained more vote, Huang only received 25.89% of the turnout, allowing Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian to be elected in a traditional pro-Chinese reunification city and Mainlander stronghold.
After the failure in the mayoral election, Huang was appointed the Minister of Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, in June 1996, and the Minister without Portfolio of Executive Yuan 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, followd by becoming the President of Chinese Professional Baseball League upon inviation in 2000.
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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| Preceded by Wu Po-hsiung |
Mayor of Taipei 1990–1994 |
Succeeded by Chen Shui-bian |