Catharina "Cathy" Ubels-Veen (28 October 1928 – 17 February 2015) was a Dutch politician. She was a member of the
House of Representatives
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of the Netherlands between 1982 and 1986 for the
Evangelical People's Party.
Career
Veen was born in
Kampen
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on 28 October 1928. In 1959 she married S. Ubels and from then on went with the name Ubels-Veen.
She went to school in
Amsterdam
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, where she also obtained an academic degree in sociology at the
VU University Amsterdam
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around 1960.
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In 1975 Ubels-Veen became member of the municipal council of ]Dokkum
Dokkum is a Dutch fortified city in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland. It has 12,669 inhabitants (February 8, 2020). The fortifications of Dokkum are well preserved and are known as the ''bolwerken'' (bulwarks). ...
for the Anti-Revolutionary Party
The Anti-Revolutionary Party ( nl, Anti-Revolutionaire Partij, ARP) was a Protestant conservative and Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1879 by Abraham Kuyper, a neo-Calvinist theologian and m ...
. In 1980 this party merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal
The Christian Democratic Appeal ( nl, Christen-Democratisch Appèl, ; CDA) is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands. It was originally formed in 1977 from a confederation of the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary ...
. In 1982 Ubels-Veen's membership of the municipal council ended.[ She left both the municipal council as well as the Christian Democratic Appeal due to its policy on nuclear weapons.] In the 1982 general election she obtained a seat in the House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...
for the Evangelical People's Party, which had separated from the Christian Democratic Appeal. Ubels-Veen was the sole representative of the party in the House.[ She opposed the placement of nuclear weapons of the United States in the Netherlands. In 1985 during protests over the proposed placement of Tomahawk missiles on Dutch territory Ubels-Veen called Dutch Prime Minister an indirect accomplice of genocide.][
She died in ]Amsterdam
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on 17 February 2015.[
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References
External links
*
Parlement.com biography
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1928 births
2015 deaths
Anti-Revolutionary Party politicians
Christian Democratic Appeal politicians
Evangelical People's Party (Netherlands) politicians
Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
Municipal councillors in Friesland
People from Dokkum
People from Kampen, Overijssel
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni