About Harry Borghouts
Born 1943. Harry Borghouts is a Dutch politician.
Henricus Cornelius Johannes Lodewijk (Harry) Borghouts (born 7 February 1943) was the Queen's Commissioner in the province North Holland from 2002 till 2009. 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.
Harry Borghouts was born in Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. 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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Harry Borghouts was born on 7 February 1943 in Bergen op Zoom.
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