The Theo Heemskerk cabinet was the

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from 12 February 1908 until 29 August 1913. The cabinet was formed by the

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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 ...

(ARP) and the

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(ABRK) following the fall of the

De Meester cabinet The De Meester cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 17 August 1905 until 12 February 1908. The cabinet was formed by the List of political parties in the Netherlands, political parties Liberal Union (Netherlands), Liberal Union (LU) an ...

21 December 1907. The

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cabinet was a

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in the House of Representatives (Netherlands), House of Representatives but was Confidence and supply, supported by Independent politician, Independent Catholics (Ind. C.) and Independent politician, Independent Protestants (Ind. P.) for a majority. After the 1909 Dutch general election, election of 1909 the

and the

received a plurality (voting), plurality of the votes and the cabinet could continued to govern as a majority government from 27 July 1909. Theo Heemskerk of the

was Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Prime Minister.

Cabinet Members

: Retained this position from the previous cabinet. : Resigned. : Served ''ad interim''. : Died in office.

References

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