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Max Sieben Baucus (born December 11, 1941) is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, Baucus was the longest-serving U.S. senator from Montana. Baucus has been the United States Ambassador to China since 2014. As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Baucus played an influential role in the debate over health care reform in the United States.〔(Baucus Watch: A key senator on health reform holds a listening session ), Columbia Journalism Review〕 He was also chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation, a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and was chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Before his election to the Senate, Baucus was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1978, representing Montana's 1st congressional district. He previously served in the Montana House of Representatives from 1973 to 1974. On August 9, 2011, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appointed Baucus to the United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. On April 23, 2013, Baucus announced he would retire from the U.S. Senate at the end of his term in 2015. On December 18, 2013, ''Politico'' reported that the White House had selected Baucus to be the United States Ambassador to China. On February 6, 2014, Baucus was confirmed by a vote of 96-0 with three Republicans absent and Baucus himself voting "Present".〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Office of the Secretary of the Senate )〕 He resigned from his Senate seat on the same day. ==Early life, education, and early career== Max Baucus was born Max Sieben Enke on December 11, 1941 in Helena, Montana, the son of Jean Baucus (née Sheriff), from a wealthy ranching family, and Stephen Enke, Ph.D., a demographer and economist. Baucus lived in California until he was two, when his mother left his father and returned to Helena. She later married John J. Baucus. His father, born in British Columbia, Canada, was of German and Scottish descent, and his mother had English and German ancestry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com )〕 Baucus graduated from Helena High School in 1959.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.baucus.senate.gov/?p=maxs_biography )〕 He attended Carleton College in Minnesota for a year before transferring to Stanford University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1964, and was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. After graduating, he attended Stanford Law School and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1967. After finishing law school, Baucus spent three years as a lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. He moved back to Montana in 1971 to serve as the executive director of the state's Constitutional Convention, opening a law office in Missoula, Montana. In November 1972, Baucus was elected to the Montana House of Representatives as a state representative from Missoula. In November 1974 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 1976. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Baucus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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