What key details about james soong can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: james soong chu-yu -lrb- ; born march 16 , 1942 -rrb- , is a politician in the republic of china on taiwan . he founded and chairs the people first party , a smaller party in the kuomintang -lrb- kmt -rrb- - led pan-blue coalition . born to a kuomintang military family of hunanese origin , soong began his political career as a secretary to premier chiang ching-kuo -lrb- later president -rrb- and rose to prominence as director-general of the government information office from 1979 to 1984 . upon chiang 's death soong was instrumental in silencing conservatives in the kmt from blocking the ascendancy of lee teng-hui as kmt leader . soong was the only elected governor of taiwan province from 1994 to 1998 , before the streamlining of the provincial government . he placed second in the 2000 presidential election ; his independent candidacy split the pro-chinese reunification vote between himself and the kmt candidate lien chan leading to the ascendency of democratic progressive party candidate chen shui-bian . in the 2004 presidential election , he ran as vice president on the ticket of kmt chairman lien chan ; they narrowly lost to chen shui-bian . soong ran again as a candidate in the 2012 presidential race , garnering 2.77 % of popular support .
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- spouse is viola chen -lrb- m. 1968 -- 2012 -rrb-- name is james -rrb- soong 24px people first party -lrb- 2000 --- relations is soong ta -lrb- father -rrb-- alma mater is national catholic university of america georgetown university chengchi university university of california , berkeley the- occupation is politician