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Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. (born March 26, 1960) is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as the 16th governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the ambassador of the United States to Russia from 2017 to 2019, ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011, and ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993.
The United States ambassador to China is the chief United States diplomat to the People's Republic of China. ... Jon Huntsman Jr. Utah: August 28, 2009 April 30, 2011 ...
Huntsman served as Governor of Utah from January 2005 until August 2009, but resigned during the first year of his second term to serve as United States Ambassador to China, a position to which he was appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama. Speculation of a Huntsman candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination began ...
Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor, one-time presidential candidate and ambassador to China and Russia, announced Thursday he will run for governor again in 2020. Huntsman, a Republican who ...
Previously, Huntsman was U.S. ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011 under President Barack Obama and ambassador to Singapore in the early 1990s under presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
10th United States Ambassador to China; In office August 16, 2011 – March 1, 2014: President: Barack Obama: Preceded by: Jon Huntsman Jr. Succeeded by: Max Baucus: 36th United States Secretary of Commerce; In office March 26, 2009 – August 1, 2011: President: Barack Obama: Deputy: Dennis Hightower Rebecca Blank (acting) Preceded by: Carlos ...
Jon Huntsman, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to China, has stated that the recent policy shift is "losing friends worldwide". Huntsman discussed a British diplomat critical of conduct by Chinese officials at the Copenhagen climate change summit, who considered the change in China's approach "shocking". He mentions that "China's more aggressive approach ...
On May 16, 2009, Obama announced his intention to nominate Jon Huntsman Jr., then Republican Governor of Utah to fill the position of Ambassador to China. Huntsman was the only ambassador in the Administration to be personally announced by the President. The United States Senate needed to confirm the appointment. [43]