Harry Borghouts | |
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Queen's Commissioner in North Holland | |
In office 1 June 2002 –1 December 2009 | |
Monarch | Queen Beatrix |
Preceded by | Jos van Kemenade |
Succeeded by | Elisabeth Post |
Personal details | |
Born | Bergen op Zoom,Netherlands | 7 February 1943
Political party | Political Party of Radicals GreenLeft |
Alma mater | Royal Netherlands Naval College University of Amsterdam |
Henricus Cornelius Johannes Lodewijk (Harry) Borghouts (born 7 February 1943) was the Queen's Commissioner in the province North Holland from 2002 till 2009. He is a member of the political party GreenLeft. He was the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands from 1996 to 2002. [1]
Harry Borghouts was born in Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. [1] His father,who fought for the Dutch resistance during World War II,was State Secretary of Defence from 1965 to 1966. [2] After his gymnasium education in Rotterdam,where he majored in arts,Borghouts studied to be a naval officer at the Royal Netherlands Naval College from 1961 to 1964. Afterwards,he studied Law at the University of Amsterdam,where he graduated in 1977. [1]
Borghouts was made Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau on 28 April 2006. [1]