Theodorus "Theo" Heemskerk (20 July 1852 – 12 June 1932) was a Dutch politician of the
Anti-Revolutionary Party
The Anti-Revolutionary Party ( nl, Anti-Revolutionaire Partij, ARP) was a Protestant conservative and Christian democracy, Christian democratic list of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands. The party was fou ...
(ARP) who served as
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
The prime minister of the Netherlands ( nl, Minister-president van Nederland) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands. Although the monarch is the ''de jure'' head of government, the prime minister ''de facto'' ...
from 12 February 1908 until 29 August 1913.
Heemskerk is particularly known as the founder of the Dutch
poverty
Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little
vaccination
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laws. His father
Jan Heemskerk
Jan Heemskerk Abrahamszoon (; 30 July 1818 – 9 October 1897) was a Dutch politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1874 to 1877, and again from 1883 to 1888. His son, Theo Heemskerk also served as Chairman of the Cou ...