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Barend Biesheuvel

1920 - 2001

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Barend Willem Biesheuvel (; 5 April 1920 – 29 April 2001) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 6 July 1971 until 11 May 1973. Biesheuvel studied law at the Free University Amsterdam obtaining a Master of Laws degree and worked as a civil servant for the Provincial-executive of North Holland from September 1945 until January 1952 and as trade association executive for the Christian Farmers and Gardeners Association (CBTB) from January 1952 until July 1959 and as chairman from August 1956. Biesheuvel became a Member of the House of Representatives shortly after the number of seats was raised from 100 to 150 seats following the election of 1956 taking office on 6 November 1956 serving as a frontbencher and spokesperson for Agriculture, Local Government Affairs and Kingdom Relations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barend Biesheuvel has received more than 87,842 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Barend Biesheuvel is the 9,559th most popular politician (up from 11,241st in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 515th in 2019) and the 65th most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Barend Biesheuvel ranks 9,559 out of 19,576. Before him are Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony, Gaius Aurelius Cotta, John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt, Gregory the Patrician, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, and Heo Gyun. After him are Pellegrino Rossi, Giorgio Almirante, Manuel González Flores, Lorenzo Celsi, Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Svetozar Pribićević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Barend Biesheuvel ranks 167. Before him are Marie Tharp, Janet Jagan, Thomas Szasz, Richard Adams, Katsuko Saruhashi, and Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir. After him are William Conrad, Eduardo Mondlane, Schubert Gambetta, Roberto M. Levingston, Thomas Gold, and Fons Rademakers. Among people deceased in 2001, Barend Biesheuvel ranks 102. Before him are Stefan Heym, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Ken Tyrrell, Alexei Tupolev, Isao Inokuma, and Sergej Kraigher. After him are Georgy Vitsin, Richard Wurmbrand, Davorin Popović, Henri Alekan, Josef Klaus, and Michel Marcel Navratil.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Barend Biesheuvel ranks 424 out of 1,646. Before him are Co Adriaanse (1947), George Knobel (1922), Adriaan Blaauw (1914), Frits Bolkestein (1933), Matthias Stom (1600), and Johannes Willebrands (1909). After him are Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594), Virgil van Dijk (1991), Pieter Both (1568), Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau (1634), Adriaen van der Werff (1659), and Fons Rademakers (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Barend Biesheuvel ranks 65. Before him are Floris II, Count of Holland (1091), Gottfried van Swieten (1733), Joseph Luns (1911), William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz (1613), Herman Willem Daendels (1762), and Frits Bolkestein (1933). After him are Pieter Both (1568), Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau (1634), Dirk Jan de Geer (1870), Louis Beel (1902), Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), and Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625).

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