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Louis Beel

1902 - 1977

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Louis Joseph Maria Beel (12 April 1902 – 11 February 1977) was a Dutch politician of the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later co-founder of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 July 1946 until 7 August 1948 and from 22 December 1958 until 19 May 1959. Beel studied Law at the Radboud University Nijmegen obtaining a Master of Laws degree and worked as a civil servant in Eindhoven and for the provincial executive of Overijssel from July 1929 until May 1942 and as a researcher at his alma mater before finishing his thesis and graduating as a Doctor of Law in Administrative law and during World War II worked as a lawyer in Eindhoven from May 1942 until January 1945. Shortly before the end of the War, Beel was appointed as Minister of the Interior in the Gerbrandy III cabinet, the last government-in-exile taking office on 23 February 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Beel is the 11,400th most popular politician (down from 9,799th in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 438th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis Beel ranks 11,400 out of 19,576. Before him are Margaret Abbott, Mark Meadows, Winfried Kretschmann, Pietro Mocenigo, García Galíndez, and Chu Suiliang. After him are Neferkauhor, Charles Evans Hughes, Pantelis Karasevdas, Edgar Savisaar, Théo Lefèvre, and Pietro Grimani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Louis Beel ranks 157. Before him are Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Solomon, Thomas E. Dewey, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Lūcija Garūta, and Panteleimon Ponomarenko. After him are John Houseman, Carlos Vidal, Josef Silný, Shen Congwen, Henri Saint Cyr, and Dutch Schultz. Among people deceased in 1977, Louis Beel ranks 124. Before him are E. F. Schumacher, Lūcija Garūta, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Rózsa Péter, Martí Ventolrà, and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. After him are Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Neco, Ivan Fedyuninsky, Norman Thomas Gilroy, Luciano Re Cecconi, and Willem Schermerhorn.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Louis Beel ranks 515 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan Gies (1905), Lodewijk van Heiden (1773), Hendrik van Gent (1900), Michael van Langren (1598), Jo Bonfrère (1946), and Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611). After him are Corine Rottschäfer (1938), Floor Jansen (1981), Victor Marijnen (1917), Macropedius (1487), Jan Luyken (1649), and Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Louis Beel ranks 82. Before him are Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), Barend Biesheuvel (1920), Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), Johannes van den Bosch (1780), Jelle Zijlstra (1918), and Jan Gies (1905). After him are Victor Marijnen (1917), Hendrikus Colijn (1869), Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz (1612), Willem Schermerhorn (1894), Cornelis Lely (1854), and Pieter van Vollenhoven (1939).

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