Max Baucus
Max Sieben Baucus (né Enke; born December 11, 1941) is a retired American politician and diplomat who served as a United States Senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a U.S. Senator for nearly 36 years, making him the longest-serving Senator in Montana history. President Barack Obama appointed Baucus to replace Gary Locke as the 11th United States Ambassador to China, a position that he held from 2014 until 2017.
Shannon Augare
Senator Augare lived and governed in a tough times that faced rural-America and native-America. He has unique experience clearing a path for good paying green jobs, programmatic infrastructure development, and community planning. Beginning in 2004, while directing a multi-state (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming), 19 tribal nation regional planning project, Senator Augare began bringing various elected officials and concerned citizens together to discuss and create landmark public policy measures that support community infrastructure development. He is credited with creating a model of building sustainable partnerships and family asset building programs. Senator Augare worked in concert with former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, current Governor Steve Bullock, former US Senator Max Baucus (who serves now as US Ambassador to China), current US Senators Jon Tester, and Steve Daines to spark creative economic development projects on local, state, and national levels. Former US Senator Max Baucus, then chairman of the powerful US Senate Finance Committee, appointed Senator Augare to serve on the United States / Thailand Trade Negotiations taskforce to ensure trade opportunities were promoted for Indian Country throughout the United States. Former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer appointed Senator Augare to serve on the Montana Board of Crime Control and later the Family Economic Security Council. In 2007, and again in 2010 and 2013, Montana Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike McGrath appointed Senator Augare to serve on the Equal Justice Taskforce for Montana.