Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte

Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte
11th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
In office 10 February 1866 – 1 June 1866
Monarch	William III
Preceded by	Johan Rudolph Thorbecke
Succeeded by	Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt
Personal details
Born	(1822-03-22)22 March 1822 Goes, Netherlands
Died	3 March 1902(1902-03-03) (aged 79) The Hague, Netherlands
Spouse(s)	Lucia de Groot
Children	4
Religion	Dutch Reformed Church

Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte (22 March 1822, in Goes – 3 March 1902, in The Hague) was a Dutch politician. He was briefly Prime Minister in 1866 and Minister of Colonial Affairs from 1863 to 1866 and from 1872 to 1874.

He trained as an officer at the Naval Institute in Medemblik but had to leave early and worked ten years in the merchant ships of Rotterdam shipowner Anthony van Hoboken where he rose to mate. In 1849 he became administrator at the sugar plantation Panji to Besuki on Java.

He eventually returned to the Netherlands and in 1862 became a member of parliament. After a year of Chamber membership, he was in 1863 Minister of Colonies. He was in his first term beginning with the abolition of the detested by liberals Culture System .

In 1866 in conflict with Thorbecke about colonial land policies. He formed the Cabinet Fransen van de Putte but was quickly overturned by Thorbecke.

In 1872 Van de Putte returned to the Liberal Cabinet De Vries Fransen van de Putte. During that period, the government broke Aceh War from.

He tried as actual prime minister in vain to mediate in the conflict between the king and his eldest son William . This issue occurred even that Van der Putte in 1877 occurred again in the Cabinet Kappeyne the Coppello . He had required that form the ministry would decide against the king before a wedding of the crown prince Countess Mathilde van Limburg Stirum . Formateur did not go far.

Fransen van de Putte played later as senator a leading role.

He married on March 28, 1850 in Delft Lucie Henriette Cornets de Groot. He was buried in the cemetery and Old Oak Dunes in The Hague.

References

• (Dutch) Parlement.com biography

Prime Ministers of the Netherlands
Schimmelpenninck De Kempenaer Thorbecke Van Hall Van der Brugghen Rochussen Van Hall Ja. Van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Heemstra Thorbecke Fransen van de Putte Ju. Van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Bosse Thorbecke De Vries J. Heemskerk Kappeyne van de Coppello Van Lynden van Sandenburg J. Heemskerk Mackay Van Tienhoven Roëll Pierson Kuyper De Meester T. Heemskerk Cort van der Linden Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Colijn De Geer Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Colijn De Geer Gerbrandy Schermerhorn Beel Drees Beel De Quay Marijnen Cals Zijlstra De Jong Biesheuvel Den Uyl Van Agt Lubbers Kok Balkenende Rutte

Ministers of Colonial Affairs of the Netherlands (1848–1945)
Rijk  Baud  Van den Bosch  Pahud  Mijer  Rochussen  Lotsy*  Van Kraaijenburg  Loudon  Uhlenbeck  Betz*  Van de Putte  Mijer  Trakranen  Hasselman  De Waal  Brocx  Van Bosse  Van de Putte  Van Oldenaller  Mees  Van Bosse  Wichers*  Van Rees  Van Oldenaller  De Brauw  Willem Frederik van Erp Taalman Kip*  Franciscus Gerard van Bloemen Waanders  August Willem Philip Weitzel*  Jacobus Petrus Sprenger van Eyk  Levinus Wilhelmus Christiaan Keuchenius  Æneas Mackay  Willem Karel van Dedem  Jacob Hendrik Bergsma  Jacob Theodoor Cremer  Titus van Asch van Wijck  Johannes Willem Bergansius*  Idenburg  Fock  Heemskerk*  Idenburg  De Waal Malefijt  Pleyte  Rambonnet*  Pleyte  Idenburg  De Beerenbrouck*  De Graaff  Colijn*  Welter  Koningsberger  De Graaff  Colijn  Welter  Cornelis van den Bussche  Welter  Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy  Van Mook *denotes interim