Jacques Aarden

{{Short description|Dutch politician (1914–1997)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Jacques Aarden | native_name = | native_name_lang = | honorific_suffix = | image = Bestuursfuncties, fractievoorzitters, tweede kamer, aarden j m, Bestanddeelnr 139-0785.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption =

| office = Member of the Council of State | term_start = 1973 | term_end = 1984

| office1 = Party leader of the PPR | term_start1 = 1968 | term_end1 = 1972

| office2 = Leader of the PPR in the House of Representatives | term_start2 = 1971 | term_end2 = 1972

| office3 = Leader of group-Aarden in the House of Representatives | term_start3 = 1968 | term_end3 = 1971

| office4 = Member of the House of Representatives | term_start4 = 1962 | term_end4 = 1972

| office5 = Member of the municipal council of Voorburg | term_start5 = 1946 | term_end5 = 1966

| birth_name = Jacobus Maria Aarden | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1914|8|11}} | birth_place = Terheijden, Netherlands | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1997|11|23|1914|08|11}} | death_place = Voorburg, Netherlands | resting_place = | party = Political Party of Radicals (1971–1984) | other_party = Group-Aarden (1968–1971){{clear}}Catholic People's Party (1945–1968) | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = {{hlist|Politician}} | profession = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | website = }}

'''Jacobus Maria''' "'''Jacques'''"<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Jacobus-Maria-Aarden/6000000067116156850|title=Jacobus Maria Aarden|website=geni_family_tree|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-01}}</ref> '''Aarden''' (11 August 1914 – 23 November 1997) was a Dutch politician.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn6/aarden|title=Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland - deel 6|last=owner|first=No|date=2013-11-12|website=resources.huygens.knaw.nl|language=Dutch|access-date=2020-02-01}}</ref>

==Career== In 1940, Aarden finished his education in economics.<ref name=":0" /> After the Second World War he joined the new Catholic People's Party,<ref>Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP)</ref> even though he also considered joining the Labour Party.<ref name=":0" /> He became a member of the municipal council in Voorburg in 1946, a position he would hold for 20 years.<ref name=":0" /> On 12 July 1962 he joined the House of Representatives.<ref name=":0" /> He often voted in favour of pieces of left-progressive legislation, unlike most of his party.<ref name=":0" /> Tensions in the Catholic People's Party caused the so-called ‘Night of Schmelzer’ which ended the KVP-ARP-Labour Cals cabinet.<ref name=":0" /> When the party began drifting towards cooperation with Freedom and Democracy instead of the liberal People's Party Aarden and his allies responded by writing an address.<ref name=":0" /> He refused to cooperate with the rightist De Jong cabinet.<ref name=":0" /> When the KVP unexpectedly declared its intention to work together closely with the ARP and Christian Historical Union Aarden and his ‘radicals’ left the KVP (26 February 1968).<ref name=":0" /> Aarden and his followers created the group-Aarden which he would lead until 1971.<ref name=":0" /> Group Aarden merged with elements from the ARP and CHU to create the leftist Political Party of Radicals,<ref name=":0" /> Aarden became its leader.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parlement.com/id/vg09lkx82twf/j_m_jacques_aarden|title=Drs. J.M. (Jacques) Aarden|website=www.parlement.com|language=nl|access-date=2020-02-01}}</ref> After the 1971 election only Aarden en de Gaay Fortman gained positions in the House of Representatives.<ref name=":0" /> After a period of absence due to overwork Aarden got a position in the Council of State in 1973.<ref name=":0" /> On 1 September 1984 he left politics.<ref name=":0" />

==Personal life== Religiously he was among the more traditional Catholics.<ref name=":0" /> He took a special interest in the veneration of Mary.<ref name=":0" />

His father was Petrus Jacobus Maria Aarden.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He married Maria Pietronella Philomena Korst and had four sons and four daughters with her.<ref name=":0" />

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aarden, Jacobus}} Category:1914 births Category:1997 deaths Category:Catholic People's Party politicians Category:People from Leidschendam-Voorburg Category:Leaders of the Political Party of Radicals Category:Political Party of Radicals politicians Category:Members of the Council of State (Netherlands) Category:Dutch MPs 1967–1971 Category:Dutch MPs 1963–1967