Tom Robert Adrie Veen (14 January 1942 – 13 August 2014) was a Dutch politician. He was a member of the

States of Gelderland The States of Gelderland ( nl, Staten van Gelderland, ) are the States-Provincial for the Netherlands, Dutch Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Gelderland. It forms the legislative body of the province. Its 55 seats are distributed every fo ...

between 1974 and 1981 and of the

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of the Netherlands between 1979 and 1983 for the

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( nl, Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie ; VVD) is a conservative-liberal Andeweg, R. and G. Irwin ''Politics and Governance in the Netherlands'', Basingstoke (Palgrave) p.49 political party in ...

Career

Veen was born in

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, shortly before the Japanese occupation. Veen went to the Netherlands and studied economy 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 ...

until 1960. He followed this with advanced studies of urban planning and economy at the University of Amsterdam and the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen in ...

. After his education, Veen was a teacher of evening classes and subsequently a lecturer of urban planning. Veen later owned an urban planning company. In 1974, Veen was elected to the States of Gelderland for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. Two years later, he became the parliamentary group leader there. In 1977, he was elected with preferential votes to the Senate but he did not take up his seat as it was against party policy to be elected with preferential votes. Two years later, he did become member of the Senate, where he was tasked with economic affairs, agriculture, fishery and finance. He stayed on until 1983. Two years earlier, in 1981, he had already left the States of Gelderland. Veen died on 13 August 2014 in

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, Italy.

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Parlement biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Veen, Tom 1942 births 2014 deaths Members of the Provincial Council of Gelderland Members of the Senate (Netherlands) People from Semarang Regency People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politicians University of Amsterdam alumni University of Groningen alumni