Pieter Cort van der Linden
Politician
1846 – 1935
Who was Pieter Cort van der Linden?
Pieter Wilhelm Adrianus Cort van der Linden was a Dutch politician. He served as prime minister of the Netherlands between 1913 and 1918.
He was the last prime minister to lead a pure liberal cabinet and the last liberal to be PM until Mark Rutte in 2010. However, the cabinet held only a minority in parliament and depended on the support of the social democrats.
One of his major achievements was maintaining Dutch neutrality during the First World War, although personally he was pro-German.
He also introduced universal suffrage in the Netherlands. Because of this, the Social Democratic Workers' Party and the Algemeene Bond van RK-kiesverenigingen, a Catholic party, won the 1918 elections. The Catholic Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck took Cort van der Linden's place as Prime minister.
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- Born
- May 14, 1846
The Hague - Spouses
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Profession
- Lived in
- The Hague
- Died
- Jul 15, 1935
The Hague
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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