Jo Cals

Jo Cals

Jozef Maria Laurens Theo "Jo" Cals (July 18, 1914 in Roermond - December 30, 1971 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP).

Cals studied law at Radboud University Nijmegen. He worked several years as a lawyer and attorney, at the university mentioned before and also as a school teacher.

As a councillor of Nijmegen he entered politics in 1945. Three years later he became an MP. He exercised this position till 1948, and again from 1963 to 1965. In between, he was (deputy) government minister of Education, Arts and Sciences. In 1965 he became prime minister of the so-called Cals cabinet, consisting of his own Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionairy Party (ARP) and the Labour Party (PvdA). A motion of fellow party member Norbert Schmelzer led to the end of his cabinet in 1966.

Cals was a Roman Catholic. He died in 1971, aged 57.

References

• (Dutch) Bio at Parlement.com

Post-war prime ministers of the Netherlands

Alphabetical
Dries van Agt (CDA) --- Jan Peter Balkenende (CDA) --- Louis Beel (KVP) --- Barend Biesheuvel (ARP) --- Jo Cals (KVP) --- Willem Drees (PvdA) --- Piet de Jong (KVP) --- Wim Kok (PvdA) --- Ruud Lubbers (CDA) --- Vic Marijnen (KVP) --- Jan de Quay (KVP) --- Mark Rutte (VVD) --- Wim Schermerhorn (VDB) --- Joop den Uyl (PvdA) --- Jelle Zijlstra (ARP)

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Chronological
Wim Schermerhorn (VDB, 1945-1946) --- Louis Beel (KVP, 1946-1948) --- Willem Drees (PvdA, 1948-1958) --- Louis Beel (KVP, 1958-1959) --- Jan de Quay (KVP, 1959-1963) --- Vic Marijnen (KVP, 1963-1965) --- Jo Cals (KVP, 1965-1966) --- Jelle Zijlstra (ARP, 1966-1967) --- Piet de Jong (KVP, 1967-1971) --- Barend Biesheuvel (ARP, 1971-1973) --- Joop den Uyl (PvdA, 1973-1977) --- Dries van Agt (CDA, 1977-1982) --- Ruud Lubbers (CDA, 1982-1994) --- Wim Kok (PvdA, 1994-2002) --- Jan Peter Balkenende (CDA, 2002-2010) --- Mark Rutte (VVD, 2010-)