Johannes Cornelis Brons

(6 August 1884 – 12 May 1964) was a judge, Governor of Suriname from 1944 until 1948, and President of the High Court of Justice of Suriname.

Biography Brons was born on 6 August 1884 in The Hague. He studied law at Leiden University, and received his doctorate in 1909. Between 1909 and 1926, he worked as a lawyer and prosecutor in Rotterdam. In 1930, he was elected to the Colonial Estates, and subsequently became its President. On 26 July 1944, His second attempt to award suffrage to all who had finished primary school passed in September 1945. After his tenure, in July 1948, universal suffrage was established in Suriname.

Between 1948 and 1949, Brons worked at the Dutch Embassy in Havana. He died on 12 May 1964 in The Hague, at the age of 79.