Harry Borghouts

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name = Harry Borghouts


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office = Queen's Commissioner in North Holland
term_start = 1 June 2002
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monarch = Queen Beatrix
predecessor = Jos van Kemenade
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birth_place = Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
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nationality = Dutch
party = Political Party Radicals GreenLeft
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alma_mater = Royal Netherlands Naval College University of Amsterdam
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Henricus Cornelius Johannes Lodewijk "Harry" Borghouts (born 7 February 1943) is the Queen's Commissioner in the province North Holland since 1 June 2002. 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.nl icon cite web
title = Mr. H.C.J.L. Borghouts
work = [http://www.parlement.com/ Parlement & Politiek]
publisher = Leiden University
url = http://www.parlement.com/9291000/biof/17568
accessdate = 2008-04-04 ]

Harry Borghouts was born on 7 February 1943 in Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. His father, who fought for the Dutch resistance during World War II, was State Secretary of Defence from 1965 to 1966. [nl icon cite web
title = J.J.F. Borghouts
work = [http://www.parlement.com/ Parlement & Politiek]
publisher = Leiden University
url = http://www.parlement.com/9291000/biof/01825
accessdate = 2008-04-04 ] 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.

Borghouts was made Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau on 28 April 2006.

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*nl icon [http://www.noord-holland.nl/thema/concern/politiek_en_bestuur/Commissaris_van_de_Koningin/ H.C.J.L. Borghouts]