Julius Caesar de Miranda

Julius Caesar de Miranda (3 April 1906 – 28 November 1956) was a Surinamese jurist and politician. De Miranda was the first prime minister of Suriname.

Biography De Miranda was a descendant of an old established family of planters. He went to the Netherlands for his education, where he studied at the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam, and then continued to study law at the University of Amsterdam. On 20 December 1928 he passed his state examination in law.

After returning to Suriname he worked as a lawyer in Paramaribo from 1929 to 1946. He was appointed to the Court of Paramaribo in the same year and was in the year of his death, even for a short time its president. The government fell over the Hospital Question in which Lou Lichtveld as Minister of Health had fired doctor Henk van Ommeren over alleged irregularities which were later proven false.

In 1955 he moved to the Netherlands, because of health reasons, but recovered and decided to return to Suriname.

On 28 November 1961, a statue created by Leo Braat was unveiled by his widow. The statue which shows him in robe is located on the Mr. de Mirandastraat in the centre of Paramaribo.

Literature Jules Sedney: De toekomst van ons verleden. Democratie, etniciteit en politieke machtsvorming in Suriname, Paramaribo 1997 (VACO Uitgeversmaatschappij).