Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge (22 January 1875 – 24 June 1958) was a Dutch

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. He was the

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in 1931–1936.Jhr.Mr. B.C. de Jonge
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Family

De Jonge was the son of Mr. Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge (1834-1907), president of the District Court of The Hague and then a judge in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, and Elisabeth Henrietta Maria Philipse (1839-1927). On 5 July 1904 he married Anna Cornelia Baroness of Wassenaer (1883-1959), founder and chairman of the General Support Fund for Indigenous Persons. They had four children.

Political career

Affiliated with the Conservative

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(CHU) from 1917, on 15 June 1917 de Jonge was appointed by Royal Decree to the

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of Prime Minister

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as Minister for War. Responsible for maintaining Dutch neutrality in the First World War, de Jonge was further appointed interim Minister of the Navy on 28 June 1918. He remained Minister in both portfolios until the government fell at the 1918 general election on 9 September 1918. He then went on to, before serving as governor, briefly serve as an attache to the viceroy of the Dutch colony of Surinam. He was later appointed by the government of

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to serve on the board of Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij, and refused appointments as Minister for War and Navy in 1920 and 1922. De Jonge also refused appointment as Queen's Commissioner in

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in 1924.

Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

Appointed Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies by Royal Decree of 8 May 1931, De Jonge took up office from 12 September 1931 and served until 16 September 1936.

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