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Harry Borghouts

Harry Borghouts

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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]

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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]

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    "Mr. H.C.J.L. Borghouts". Parlement & Politiek (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
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    "J.J.F. Borghouts". Parlement & Politiek (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
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