Given the question: Facts: - native name: - order: chairman the research , development and evaluation commission of the executive of yuan mayor of taipei the chinese taipei olympic committee minister of - successor: thomas tsai yung chaur-shin chen shui-bian - party: 24px kuomintang - predecessor: chang feng-shu wang jen-huong wu po-hsiung - term end: january 2006 september 1997 25 december 1994 - term start: january 1998 june 1996 2 june 1990 - birth date: 7 february 1936 - name: huang ta-chou - occupation: professor - image: 2005taipei101runup-thomashuang . jpg - birth place: shanhua , tainan , taiwan , empire of japan - alma mater: national taiwan university cornell university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of huang ta-chou .
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huang ta-chou -lrb- ; born 1936 -rrb- or thomas huang was a taiwan politician .he was the former mayor of taipei and the chairman of the chinese taipei olympic committee .