- Nicolaas Pierson
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Nicolaas Pierson 
Prime Minister of the Netherlands In office
July 27, 1897 – July 31, 1901Monarch Regent Emma (1897-1898)
Queen Wilhelmina (1898-1901)Preceded by Joan Röell Succeeded by Abraham Kuyper Minister of Finance In office
August 21, 1891 – May 9, 1894Prime Minister Gijsbert van Tienhoven Preceded by Karel A. Godin de Beaufort Succeeded by Jacobus P. S. van Eyk Personal details Born Nicolaas Gerard Pierson
7 February 1839
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsDied 24 December 1909 (aged 70)
Heemstede, The NetherlandsPolitical party LU Spouse(s) Catharina Rutgera Waller Alma mater University of Leiden
University of CambridgeOccupation Economist Religion Dutch Reformed Church : moderate Orthodox Nicolaas Gerard Pierson (Amsterdam, 7 February 1839 – Heemstede, 24 December 1909) was a Dutch Liberal financial and economic expert, politician, and statesman, chairman of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) of the Netherlands from 1897 until 1901.
Pierson was a professor economics and statistics at the University of Amsterdam and director and presiding director (president-directeur) of the De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch national bank. He was minister of Finance in the Cabinet Van Tienhoven. During his term of office he introduced an important tax revision. After serving as chairman of the Council of Ministers for four years he took a seat in the House of Representatives for the constituency of Gorinchem from 1905 to 1909. Pierson received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
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Family background
Pierson married in 1862 to Catharina Rutgera Waller, with whom he had no children.
Work
Pierson's main two economist texts were Grondbeginselen der Staathuiskunde and Leerboek der Staathuiskunde, the latter being translated into English and Italian.
He was also essential in laying the foundations for the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek.
Trivia
Head of the firm Beckman en Pierson, which traded in cotton and colonial wares, from 1861-1864 alongside H.B. Wiardi Beckman.
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