The Fatherland League () was a Dutch
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founded in 1924.
The party was founded on November 15, 1924, by members of various (conservative) liberal groups, by initiative of J.A.A.H. de Beaufort and R.A. Fockema. Its initial members were industrialist, lawyers, civil servants, and politicians, like
Samuel van Houten
Samuel van Houten (17 February 1837 – 14 October 1930) was a Dutch liberal politician and philosopher, who served as Minister of the Interior from 1894 to 1897.
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After the party obtained a disastrous result in the
1925 Dutch elections, the League started negotiations with the ''Verbond van Actualisten'', a fascist party. Most of the liberals would have left the party by 1926 though.
On June 12, 1926, the party would be reinstituted as The Fatherland League, when the last remaining members of the Fatherland League merged with the faction ''de Jong'' of the ''Verbond van Actualisten''.
Defunct political parties in the Netherlands
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