Cornelis "Kees" Boertien (26 July 1927 – 30 May 2002) was a Dutch politician of the defunct

Anti-Revolutionary Party The Anti-Revolutionary Party (, 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 minister who served as Prime Mi ...

(ARP) and later the

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(CDA) party and jurist. Boertien attended a Gymnasium in

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from April 1939 until May 1946 and applied at the

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in June 1946

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and obtaining a

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degree in July 1948 and worked as student researcher before graduating with a

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degree on 13 December 1952. Boertien worked as an office clerk for a printing office in Zwolle from June 1946 until August 1947 and for an insurance company in

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from August 1947 until December 1952. Boertien worked as an accountant for the Nederlands Instituut van Registeraccountants from December 1952 until September 1960. Boertien worked as a

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for

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from September 1960 until October 1965. Boertien applied at the

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in July 1958 for a

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in Law and worked as a researcher at the Free University Amsterdam before he got a

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as a

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on 13 April 1962. Boertien served on the Anti-Revolutionary Party Executive Board from February 1960 until May 1965. Boertien became a Member of the House of Representatives after Jan Smallenbroek was appointed as

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in the Cabinet Cals following the cabinet formation of 1965, taking office on 18 May 1965 serving as a

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and

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for

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and deputy spokesperson for

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and the

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. Boertien was selected as a

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and dual served in those positions, taking office on 8 May 1967. After the election of 1971 Boertien was appointed as

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in the Cabinet Biesheuvel I, taking office on 14 July 1971. The Cabinet Biesheuvel I fell just one year later on 19 July 1972 after the

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(DS'70) retracted their support following there dissatisfaction with the proposed budget memorandum to further reduce the deficit and continued to serve in a

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capacity until the first cabinet formation of 1972 when it was replaced by the

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Cabinet Biesheuvel II with Boertien continuing as Minister for Development Cooperation, taking office on 9 August 1972. After the election of 1972 Boertien returned as a Member of the House of Representatives, taking office on 7 December 1972 but he was still serving in the cabinet and because of

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customs in the constitutional convention of Dutch politics he couldn't serve a

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he subsequently resigned as a Member of the House of Representatives on 7 March 1973. Following the second cabinet formation of 1972 Boertien was not giving a cabinet post in the new

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, the Cabinet Biesheuvel II was replaced by the Cabinet Den Uyl on 11 May 1973. Boertien subsequently returned as a Member of the House of Representatives after Antoon Veerman was appointment as State Secretary for Education and Sciences in the new

, taking office on 28 May 1973 serving as a frontbencher chairing the parliamentary committee for Kingdom Relations and the special parliamentary committee for European Parliamentary Reforms and spokesperson for

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and deputy spokesperson for Medical Ethics and

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. In December 1974 Boertien was nominated as

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, he resigned as Member of the House of Representatives the same day he was installed as Queen's Commissioner, serving from 16 January 1975 until 1 August 1992. Boertien also became active in the

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and

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and occupied numerous seats as a corporate director and nonprofit director on several boards of directors and supervisory boards and served on several state commissions and councils on behalf of the government ( Advisory Council for Spatial Planning, Raad voor Cultuur, Cadastre Agency and the Public Pension Funds PFZW).

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