| LC control no. | n 79083575 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hertzog, James Barry Munnik, 1866-1942 |
| Variant(s) | Hertzog, J. B. M. (James Barry Munnik), 1866-1942 |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1866 |
| Death date | 1942 |
| Place of birth | Wellington (South Africa) |
| Place of death | South Africa |
| Affiliation | Victoria College of Stellenbosch Universiteit van Amsterdam National Party (South Africa) |
| Profession or occupation | Prime ministers Nationalists Generals |
| Found in | South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly. Select Committee on Petitions of J.B. M. Hertzog and J. L. Van Eyssen. Report ... 1922. Generaal J.B.M. Hertzog, 1987- Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 30, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Hertzog, James Barry Munnik; J. B. M. Hertzog; Prime Minister, nationalist, Boer general; born 1866 in Wellington, South Africa. He studied law at Victoria College of Stellenbosch, and at the University of Amsterdam, and was a judge in the Orange Free State (OFS). He became legal adviser to the OFS forces during the Anglo-Boer War, and a general. He represented the Orange River Colony (ORC) in the negotiations for a Union of South Africa, and was appointed minister in the first government of the new Union of South Africa (1910). He formed the National Party (NP) (1914) and became prime minister of South Africa in 1924). He joined in a coalition with the South African Party (1932) and remained as prime minister until 1939. He died in 1942 in South Africa) |
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