Max Baucus

Max Baucus Seven ( born December 11, 1941 in Helena, Montana ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Since February 6, 2014 Baucus is the United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. From 1978 to 2014 he represented the state of Montana in the U.S. Senate, where he was Chairman of the Finance Committee (from 2007) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (from 2009).

Life

Baucus is a graduate of Stanford University. After a brief spell as a lawyer in Washington and Missoula, he was a deputy in the 1973 House of Representatives from Montana. A year later, in 1974, he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served after defeating the Republican incumbent Richard G. Shoup from 3 January 1975.

In November 1978, Max Baucus won the election for U.S. Senator with a vote share of 55.6 percent against Republican Larry Williams. In the Primary his party he had prevailed against Paul G. Hatfield, who had been appointed as his successor after the death of Senator Lee Metcalf on 12 January 1978. Baucus would have begun his office regularly on 3 January 1979 but after the early resignation Paul Hatfield on December 12, 1978, he took his seat previously true. Since Baucus represented throughout his state in the Senate; last he was re-elected in 2008, where he came to 73 percent of the vote against Republican Bob Kelleher. Baucus was the last service older counterpart, the equally fitting for Montana in the Senate, Jon Tester.

On February 6, 2014 Baucus was appointed ambassador. As his successor in the Senate convened Montana Democratic governor Steve Bullock the former vice governor of the state, John Walsh, who had previously declared their intention to apply at the regular election in November 2014 by the mandate of not more candidates Baucus.