Jules Vandenpeereboom
Politician
1843 – 1917
Who was Jules Vandenpeereboom?
Jules Henri Pierre François Vandenpeereboom was a Belgian Catholic Party politician.
Vandenpeereboom was born in Kortrijk and educated as a lawyer. He represented Kortrijk in the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives from 1878 to 1900.
He held several ministerial posts, beginning with Railways, Posts and Telegraphs, from 1884 to 1899. He combined this with the War ministry from 1896. He served as the 17th Prime Minister of Belgium in 1899. He was responsible for the introduction of bilingual postage stamps in Belgium in the period 1891 to 1893.
On leaving the Chamber, he was appointed an honorary Minister of State in 1900 and served in the Belgian Senate representing West Flanders. He died in Anderlecht.
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- Born
- Mar 18, 1843
Kortrijk - Also known as
- Ванденперебом, Жюль
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Died
- Mar 6, 1917
Anderlecht
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on July 23, 2013
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