- Augustin Dumon-Dumortier
Augustin Aimable Dumon-Dumortier (
Lille ,4 December 1791 -Tournai 28 January 1852 ) was a Belgianindustrialist ,diplomat and liberalpolitician . He was President of theBelgian Senate from27 June 1848 until28 January 1852 ,governor of the province of Hainaut andburgomaster ofTournai . In 1849, he was sent to theNetherlands as special envoi to congratulate William III with hiscoronation . This was 19 years after theBelgian Revolution , which had made an end to theUnited Kingdom of the Netherlands .He was "chevalier de l'ordre de Leopold", and received the Dutch "grand-croix de l'ordre de la Couronne de Chêne".
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* Liberal Party
*Liberalism in Belgium ource
*Aut|A. Scheler, "Annuaire statistique et historique belge", Brussel - Leipzig, 1854, pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=iq0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA313&dq=Augustin+Dumon-Dumortier&hl=nl#PPA313,M1 313] [http://books.google.com/books?id=iq0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA313&dq=Augustin+Dumon-Dumortier&hl=nl#PPA314,M1 -] [http://books.google.com/books?id=iq0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA313&dq=Augustin+Dumon-Dumortier&hl=nl#PPA315,M1 315] .
* [http://www.liberaalarchief.be/D.html Augustin Dumon-Dumortier] (D)
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