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Harry Borghouts

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Harry Borghouts
Queen's Commissioner in North Holland
In office
1 June 2002 – 1 December 2009
MonarchQueen Beatrix
Preceded byJos van Kemenade
Succeeded byElisabeth Post
Personal details
Born (1943-02-07) 7 February 1943 (age 81)
Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
Political partyPolitical Party of Radicals
GreenLeft
Alma materRoyal Netherlands Naval College
University of Amsterdam

Henricus Cornelius Johannes Lodewijk (Harry) Borghouts (born 7 February 1943) was the Queen's Commissioner in the province North Holland from 2002 till 2009. He is a member of the political party GreenLeft. He was the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands from 1996 to 2002.[1]

Harry Borghouts was born in Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands.[1] His father, who fought for the Dutch resistance during World War II, was State Secretary of Defence from 1965 to 1966.[2] After his gymnasium education in Rotterdam, where he majored in arts, Borghouts studied to be a naval officer at the Royal Netherlands Naval College from 1961 to 1964. Afterwards, he studied Law at the University of Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1977.[1]

Borghouts was made Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau on 28 April 2006.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Mr. H.C.J.L. Borghouts". Parlement & Politiek (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
  2. ^ "J.J.F. Borghouts". Parlement & Politiek (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
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Political offices
Preceded by Queen's Commissioner in North Holland
1 June 2002 – December 2009
Succeeded by