Henry Lucien de Vries (12 December 1909 – 6 April 1987) was a

Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...

se politician and entrepreneur. De Vries was born in

Paramaribo Paramaribo (; ; nicknamed Par'bo) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 241,000 people (2012 census), almost half of Suriname's ...

. He studied economics at the Netherlands School of Economics and law at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

. He was also trained as an officer at the

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. In 1946, he joined

De Surinaamsche Bank ''De Surinaamsche Bank'' (DSB; Bank of Suriname in English), is the largest bank in Suriname. History Simon Abendanon founded De Surinaamsche Bank (DSB) on 19 January 1865 in Paramaribo, and it opened for business on 18 July 1865 in the home of o ...

, where he became a member of the management board. He served as the Chairman of the Estates of Suriname from 1947 to 1949.De Nationale Assemblée: Lijst van Oud-Voorzitters
/ref> Raymond Pos was initially nominated as Governor of Suriname, however he died on 5 November 1964. De Vries was Governor of Suriname from 1965 to 1968.Mr.Drs. H.L. (Hein) de Vries
''Parlement & Politiek''. Retrieved on 6 November 2015. He was the half-brother of the artist

Erwin de Vries Erwin de Vries (21 December 1929 – 31 January 2018) was a Surinamese painter and sculptor. De Vries was born in Paramaribo, and is the half-brother of Henry Lucien de Vries, who served as governor of Suriname from 1965 until 1967. Wim Bos V ...

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1909 births 1987 deaths Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni Governors of Suriname People from Paramaribo 20th-century Surinamese businesspeople University of Amsterdam alumni Chairmen of the Estates of Suriname Royal Netherlands Army personnel of World War II {{Suriname-politician-stub