Background
He was born at Sun Moon Lake during the Japanese rule of Taiwan.
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Lin Lin
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Education
Lin was born in Nantou County, Taiwan, and graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor of science degree.
Career
On April 13, 2013, Lin died at home, of intestinal obstruction and organ failure, at the age of 87. He had been service in politics since the 1970s. In 1990, Lin was in the "non-mainstream faction" that aimed to be less confrontational with the People's Republic of China than Lee Teng-hui.
He tried to replace Lee in the 1990 presidential election, with Chiang Wei-kuo as his running mate. He resigned his position as the head of the Judicial Yuan to become a presidential candidate in the 1996 elections. Though he originally considered Chen Li-an as his vice presidential running mate, finally he still picked former Premier Hau Pei-tsun, considering Hau's background might attract more mainlanders' votes for him.
Chen was also run as an independent and both of them later expelled from KMT. However, because of his pro-China and pro-reunification standpoints during the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, they only finished third with 14.9% of the vote. He retired from political affairs and secluded himself in Taichung after this defeat. Lin resumed membership in the KMT in 2005.
Politics
Some thought he might be Chiang Ching-kuo's successor as head of the Kuomintang (KMT), but after failing to win the KMT's nomination for president in 1996, he became an independent. He was a vice-chairman of the Kuomintang in 1990. Since the Kuomintang did not nominate him, Lin ran as an independent.
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Political Party
Kuomintang