Pieter Wilhelm Adrianus Cort van der Linden (14 May 1846 – 15 July 1935) was a Dutch politician who served as
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
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from 29 August 1913 to 9 September 1918.
Biography
He was the last prime minister to lead a
liberal
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cabinet and the last liberal to be Prime Minister until
Mark Rutte
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After a business career working for Unilever ...
in 2010 (92 years later). One of Cort van der Linden's major achievements was maintaining Dutch
neutrality during
World War I
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although personally, he was pro-German.
He also introduced
universal suffrage
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in the Netherlands in what is now known as the
Pacification of 1917
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. That made the
Social Democratic Workers' Party and the
General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses
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win the 1918 elections. The Catholic
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck
Charles Joseph Marie Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1 December 1873 – 17 April 1936) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP), later formed to the Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic A ...
took Cort van der Linden's place as Prime Minister.
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