Nicolaas Gerard Pierson

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Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Nicolaas Gerard Pierson

In office 27 July 1897 – 31 July 1901
Preceded by	J. Röell
Succeeded by	A. Kuyper
Minister of Finance
In office 21 August 1891 – 9 May 1894
Preceded by	K.A. Godin de Beaufort
Succeeded by	J.P. Sprenger van Eyk
In office 27 July 1897 – 1 August 1901
Preceded by	J.P. Sprenger van Eyk
Succeeded by	J.J.I. Harte van Tecklenburg
Member of Parliament
In office 19 September 1905 – 21 September 1909
Constituency	Gorinchem

Born	7 February 1839(1839-02-07) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died	24 December 1909 (aged 70) Heemstede, Netherlands
Political party	Liberale Unie
Spouse	Catharina Rutgera Waller

Nicolaas Gerard Pierson (Amsterdam, 7 February 1839 – Heemstede, 24 December 1909) was a Dutch Liberal financial and economic expert, politician, and statesman, chairman of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) of the Netherlands from 1897 until 1901.

Pierson was a professor economics and statistics at the University of Amsterdam and director and presiding director (president-directeur) of the De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch national bank. He was minister of Finance in the Cabinet Van Tienhoven. During his term of office he introduced an important tax revision. After serving as chairman of the Council of Ministers for four years he took a seat in parliament for the constituency of Gorinchem from 1905 to 1909. Pierson received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge.

1 Family background
2 Work
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Family background

Pierson married in 1862 to Catharina Rutgera Waller, with whom he had no children.

[edit] Work

Pierson's main two economist texts were Grondbeginselen der Staathuiskunde and Leerboek der Staathuiskunde, the latter being translated into English and Italian.

He was also essential in laying the foundations for the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek.

[edit] Trivia

Head of the firm Beckman en Pierson, which traded in cotton and colonial wares, from 1861-1864 alongside H.B. Wiardi Beckman.

[edit] External links

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