川普將提名洪博培出任駐俄大使

Former Governor of Utah Jon Huntsman Jr. has served in the administrations of four U.S. presidents and is now being considered by the fifth.

On Tuesday, the White House announced that President Donald Trump will nominate Huntsman as U.S. Ambassador to Russia.

Born in March 1960, Huntsman is the motorcycle-driving son of billionaire Jon Huntsman Sr, who founded a large chemical manufacturer.

He dropped out of high school to play keyboard in a rock band, later finishing school and graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan, and speaks fluent Mandarin.

After university, Huntsman worked as an aide in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and, while still in his early 30s, President George H. W. Bush appointed him ambassador to Singapore.

Later he served as a trade official under President George W. Bush, and ran the Huntsman family's holding company.

In 2004, he ran for governor of Utah promising to simplify the state's tax code, develop industry and reform the state's Mormon-inspired alcohol restrictions. He was elected governor with 58% of the vote.

After his re-election in 2008 with 78% of the vote, he began meeting national political consultants and his name began to surface in discussions about the Republican party's prospects for the 2012 race.

In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Huntsman to be ambassador to China.

Towards the end of 2010, Huntsman told Newsweek magazine he thought he and his family "may have one final run left in our bones." In 2011, Huntsman resigned his post in order to return to the United States with his family to pursue the nomination of the Republican Party for president of the United States.

Initially, Huntsman looked like a promising candidate with his foreign policy experience, moderate position on some social issues, and his fiscal conservatism. But shortly after a disappointing third-place finish in the 2012 New Hampshire Republican Primary, Huntsman resigned from the race.

In January 2014, Huntsman was named chairman of the think-tank the Atlantic Council.

Huntsman indicated in an interview with Politico that he would not run in the 2016 presidential election. In April 2016, Huntsman decided to endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump, but later retracted his endorsement.美國前猶他州州長喬恩·亨茨曼，也就是中國人耳熟能詳的前駐華大使洪博培曾在四屆美國政府任職，如今又被第五屆政府提名。

白宮星期二宣佈，川普總統將提名洪博培出任美國駐俄羅斯大使。

洪博培1960年3月出生，他父親老亨茨曼創建了一個大型化工廠，是億萬富翁。

洪博培高中輟學，在一個搖滾樂隊做鍵盤手，後來完成學業，畢業於賓夕法尼亞大學。他是摩門教徒，曾到臺灣傳教，說得一口流利的普通話。

大學畢業後，洪博培曾在里根總統任期內擔任白宮助理，32歲就被老布什總統任命爲美國駐新加坡大使。

洪博培後來又在小布什總統任期內擔任貿易官員，他還管理過亨茨曼家族控股公司。

洪博培2004年參選猶他州州長，競選綱領是簡化猶他州稅法，促進工業發展，對猶他州受摩門教影響的酒類限制規定進行改革。他最終以58%的得票率當選。

洪博培四年後又以78%的得票率連任，並開始與全國政治諮詢人士接觸，他的名字也開始出現在2012年總統大選共和黨看好的候選人名單中。

2009年5月，美國總統奧巴馬任命洪博培出任美國駐華大使。

2010年接近尾聲時，洪博培告訴新聞週刊說，他覺得他和家人“骨子裏可能還有最後一次選舉要參加”。2011年，洪博培辭去駐華大使的職務，攜家人返回美國，參加共和黨總統候選人的角逐。

起初，洪博培因爲他的外交經驗、在某些社會問題溫和的立場和他在財政上的保守觀點，成爲外界非常看好的候選人，但令人失望的是，他在2012年新罕布什爾州共和黨黨內初選中只排在第三位，洪博培隨即宣佈退出選舉。

2014年1月，洪博培被任命爲智庫“大西洋委員會”主席。

洪博培曾在接受Politico 採訪時表示，他不會參加2016年總統大選。2016年4月，洪博培決定支持共和黨候選人川普，但是後來又撤回了他的支持。