Mark Ho Ho Min-hao | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
Smallimage: | 何敏豪.JPG |
Order: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
Term Start: | 1 February 2002 |
Term End: | 31 January 2008 |
Constituency: | Taichung |
Birth Date: | 1958 7, df=y |
Birth Place: | Taichung, Taiwan |
Education: | National Chung Hsing University (BA) Tunghai University (MPA) |
Ho Min-hao (; born 10 July 1958), also known by the English name Mark Ho, is a Taiwanese politician who served two terms in the Legislative Yuan between 2002 and 2008.
Ho earned a bachelor's degree from National Chung Hsing University and attended graduate school at Tunghai University.[1]
Ho served on the third National Assembly as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party,[2] [3] but switched affiliations to represent the newly founded Taiwan Solidarity Union in the 2001 legislative elections.[4] [5] During his first term, Ho was a member of the Legislative Yuan's National Defense Committee.[6] [7] Near the start of his second term, the Taiwan Solidarity Union named Ho one of its caucus whips.[8] He was named the TSU candidate for the mayoralty of Taichung in April 2005,[9] and reelected as one of four TSU caucus whips in June.[10] Incumbent Taichung mayor Jason Hu retained his office, and Ho was later named a member of the Taiwan Solidarity Union's Central Executive Committee.[11] Ho rejoined the Democratic Progressive Party in November 2007, after defeating Wang Shih-hsun in a public opinion poll used to determine the Pan-Green Coalition's legislative candidate,[12] and lost his legislative seat to Daniel Huang.[13] [14]