Huang Huang-hsiung was first elected to the first Legislative Yuan in 1980, only to lose reelection in 1983.
15 Facts About Huang Huang-hsiung
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Huang Huang-hsiung won in the next election cycle, 1986, and served until 1990.
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Huang Huang-hsiung then ran in the National Assembly elections of December 1991, and sat in the assembly until 1993 when he returned to the Legislative Yuan.
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Huang Huang-hsiung left the Legislative Yuan in 1996 after losing reelection and was appointed to the Control Yuan by President Lee Teng-hui in 1999.
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The inquiry lasted fourteen years, by which time Huang Huang-hsiung had been nominated for a second term on the Control Yuan by Ma Ying-jeou.
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Huang Huang-hsiung did not receive a third nomination, and stepped down from the Control Yuan in July 2014.
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Besides his long-running inquiry into the Kuomintang, undertaken during his first Control Yuan term, Huang Huang-hsiung looked into the status of social welfare in Taiwan, and the actions of the Ministries of Justice and Finance in regards to financial crime prevention.
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Huang Huang-hsiung next served on the Control Yuan starting in 2008.
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In June 2009, Huang Huang-hsiung found that Examination Yuan presidential candidate Chang Chun-yen did not solicit donations from Wayne Pai.
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Three months later, a Control Yuan report publicized by Huang Huang-hsiung showed that the Public Construction Commission had wrongly ignored Taipei City Government in a drawn-out dispute over the construction of the Taipei Dome.
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Huang Huang-hsiung led a 2011 probe into the construction of the Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant, the findings of which revealed that Taipower had not adequately considered safety concerns in the plant's design.
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Huang Huang-hsiung founded the Taiwan Research Foundation in 1988, an organization credited with helping spread Taiwan studies worldwide, and is domestically recognized for its contribution to Taiwan's democratization up to the first direct presidential election in 1996.
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Huang Huang-hsiung is known for his comprehensive research into Taiwan's National Health Insurance program while serving on the Control Yuan and is a proponent of health care reform.
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Huang Huang-hsiung has served as president of the Chiang Wei-shui Foundation.
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Huang Huang-hsiung chaired the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science Foundation, which proposed the founding of the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science as National Tsing Hua University's eleventh college in 2020.