Piet de Jong
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Piet de Jong
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| In office May 11, 1971 – September 17, 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Jan Niers |
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| Succeeded by | Jan Teijssen |
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| In office May 11, 1971 – September 17, 1974 |
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| In office April 5, 1967 – July 6, 1971 |
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| Monarch | Queen Juliana |
| Preceded by | Jelle Zijlstra |
| Succeeded by | Barend Biesheuvel |
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| In office July 24, 1963 – April 5, 1967 |
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| Prime Minister | Victor Marijnen (1963-1965) Jo Cals (1965-1966) Jelle Zijlstra (1966-1967) |
| Preceded by | Sim Visser |
| Succeeded by | Willem den Toom |
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| In office June 25, 1959 – July 24, 1963 |
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| Prime Minister | Jan de Quay |
| Preceded by | Michael Calmeyer |
| Succeeded by | Joop Haex |
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| Born | 3 April 1915 Apeldoorn, Netherlands |
| Birth name | Petrus Jozef Sietze de Jong |
| Political party | KVP (1959-1980) CDA (from 1980) |
| Spouse | Anneke Bartels |
| Residence | The Hague, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Royal Netherlands Naval College |
| Occupation | Naval Officer |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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| Nickname(s) | Uncle Piet |
| Allegiance | The Netherlands |
| Service/branch | Royal Netherlands Navy |
| Years of service | 1934-1959 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Commands | Hr. Ms. De Zeeuw Hr. Ms. Gelderland |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Petrus Josef Sietse "Piet" de Jong (born Apeldoorn, 3 April 1915). Is a retired Dutch Politician. He was Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 until 1971. He is currently the oldest living former Prime Minister of the Netherlands. And is one of the Longest lived state leaders at the age of 94.
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After leaving secondary school, he joined the Royal Netherlands Navy as a midshipman in 1931 and subsequently attended the Royal Netherlands Naval College in Den Helder. In 1934 he received his commission as a sub-lieutenant and from 1935 to 1947 served in submarines.
On 13 May 1940 de Jong sailed to England on board the Dutch submarine 0-24 and during World War II saw action initially as first officer and from mid-1944 onwards as commander of that vessel. In April 1946 he returned on board the 0-24 to the Netherlands.
In 1947 he was attached to the Naval Staff of the Admiralty and in 1948 became adjutant to the Navy Minister.
From 1951 to the end of 1952, de Jong commanded a naval frigate called De Zeeuw, after which he joined the staff of the Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel in the British naval base at Portsmouth.
In 1955 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to the Inspector-General of the Royal Netherlands Navy Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and aide-de-camp to Queen Juliana, after which he returned to sea in 1958 as commander of the submarine chaser De Gelderlander.
From 25 June 1959 to 24 July 1963, de Jong was State Secretary for the Ministry of Defence (Navy) in the de Quay administration and immediately thereafter Minister of Defence in the successive Marijnen, Cals and Zijlstra governments. From 5 April 1967 to 6 July 1971 he was Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of General Affairs in the administration that bore his name.
At this point de Jong became a member of the Senate, where he served from 1971 to 1974, from 1972 as leader of the KVP.
Following the end of his active political career, de Jong occupied many posts in industry and seats on numerous supervisory boards.
In 2001 former Deputy Prime Minister Hans Wiegel praised de Jong as perhaps the best Prime Minister of the Netherlands after World War II. [1]
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