caption death_date successor death_place birth_place native_name birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
chai relay in taiwan trong-rong at 2008 cipfg global human rights torch 11 january 2014 peng ming-min taipei , taiwan chiayi , taiwan 蔡同榮 13 june 1935 1st president of the wufi 1970 2008 taipei city stage trong tsai.jpg cipfg global human rights torch relay in taiwan chai trong-rong
 1971 chai trong-rong politician national california taiwan university university of tennessee university of southern
chai trong-rong

chai trong-rong -lrb- 13 june 1935 -- 11 january 2014 -rrb- , sometimes known in english as trong chai , was a taiwanese politician .
he was a member of the legislative yuan , the national legislative body of the republic of china -lrb- taiwan -rrb- .
born in taiwan , chai earned his master 's and doctorate degrees in the united states .
he was a pro-democracy advocate and founded the association for a plebiscite and formosa tv .
a member of the democratic progressive party -lrb- dpp -rrb- , chai was elected a national-level legislator multiple times .
he took part in three of the dpp chairmanship elections .
however , he lost all three of the elections .
