Ma Ying-jeou

President of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016

Ma Ying-jeou (Chinese: 馬英九; pinyin: Mǎ Yīngjiǔ; Ma-ING-gee-oh; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was previously the mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006 and the chairman of the Kuomintang for two terms (2005–2007; 2009–2014). Ma was born in British Hong Kong to a prominent waishengren family.

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