Jon Meade Huntsman Jr., born on 26 March 1960, is an American Republican politician, businessman and diplomat. He served as the 16th governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009 and three times as a United States ambassador: to Singapore from 1992 to 1993, to China from 2009 to 2011 under Barack Obama, and to Russia from 2017 to 2019 under Donald Trump. He is the only American to have been ambassador to both Russia and China. His federal career began as a White House staff assistant under Ronald Reagan and included posts as deputy assistant secretary of commerce and as deputy United States trade representative under George W. Bush, when he helped launch the Doha trade negotiations and guided China's accession to the World Trade Organization. As governor he won re-election in 2008 and left office with high approval ratings. He sought the 2012 Republican presidential nomination without success and lost the 2020 Republican primary for Utah governor to Spencer Cox.
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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.
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Huntsman has served three times as an ambassador of the United States
Early life and education
Through his father, Huntsman is the great-great-great-grandson of early LDS Church leader Parley P. Pratt.
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served as the 16th governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009
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Huntsman resigned from his position as ambassador, effective April 30, 2011, in order to return to the United States to explore a 2012 presidential bid.
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is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat
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Huntsman is a member of the Republican Party.
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identifies himself as a center-right conservative
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