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March 9, 2017

Jon Huntsman Reportedly Offered Russian Ambassadorship
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The White House signaled Wednesday that former Utah Republican Governor
Jon Huntsman has accepted President Trump's nomination to serve as U.S.
ambassador to Russia. Huntsman is a former Mormon missionary to Taiwan
who served as President Obama's ambassador to China before he left that
post to run unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in
2012.


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