Cor van Dis sr.

Cornelis Nicolaas "Cor" van Dis (23 August 1893 – 5 January 1973) was a Dutch chemist and politician. He was a member of the Dutch House of Representatives for the Reformed Political Party (SGP) from 1929 to 1937 and from 1946 to 1971, leading the SGP from 1961 to 1971.

Early life Cor van Dis Sr. was born on 23 August 1893 in Leiden to Pieter van Dis, a grocer who died when Cor was 12 years old, and Sara Maria Bink, as the youngest of seven children. After completing his secondary education, Van Dis, along with his mother and sister, moved to Delft to attend college, He found employment as a chemist at a factory in Utrecht, where he worked until 1929. finding work as a representative of a pharmaceutical factory in 1943. In 1971 Van Dis left the House of Representatives and became a member of the Senate, the first SGP politician to do so, being succeeded as MP by his son Cor van Dis Jr. Van Dis was not prosecuted for this by the Public Prosecution Service. He later stated that he was dissatisfied with the interview, because he had been tempted to make remarks about matters he preferred not to speak about.

Death Cor van Dis Sr. died on 5 January 1973 in The Hague of stomach flu.

Personal life Van Dis married Hermina Berendina Eikendal on 14 May 1919, they had 7 children together, including later SGP MP Cor van Dis Jr. After her death from cancer in 1932, he remarried to Antoinette Betsy Cornelia Polsbroek, a French teacher from Suriname, on 27 May 1948.