Harry Borghouts

Harry Borghouts
Harry Borghouts
Queen's Commissioner in North Holland
	In office; 1 June 2002 – 1 December 2009
Monarch	Queen Beatrix
Preceded by	Jos van Kemenade
Succeeded by	Elisabeth Post
Personal details
Born	7 February 1943 (age 81); Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
Political party	Political Party of Radicals; GreenLeft
Alma mater	Royal 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[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Mr. H.C.J.L. Borghouts". Parlement & Politiek (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
^ "J.J.F. Borghouts". Parlement & Politiek (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 4 April 2008.

Political offices
Preceded by Jos van Kemenade	Queen's Commissioner in North Holland 1 June 2002 – December 2009	Succeeded by Elisabeth Post (a.i.) / Johan Remkes

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