Nicolaas Gerard Pierson (7 February 1839 in Amsterdam – 24 December 1909 in Heemstede) 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.
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active years end date
1894-05-09, 1901-08-01
active years start date
1891-08-21, 1897-07-27
alma mater
Leiden University, University of Cambridge
birth date
1839-02-07
birth name
Nicolaas Gerard Pierson
birth place
Amsterdam, Netherlands
country
Netherlands
death date
1909-12-24
death place
Netherlands, Heemstede
monarch
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont
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