| LC control no. | n 83328663 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Botha, Louis, 1862-1919 |
| Located | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1862-09-27 |
| Death date | 1919-09 |
| Place of birth | Greytown (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Transvaal (South Africa) |
| Affiliation | South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly South Africa. Office of the Prime Minister |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Prime ministers Farmers Generals |
| Found in | Moore, D.M. General Louis Botha's second expedition to Natal during the Anglo-Boer War, Sept.-Oct. 1901, 1979: t.p. (General Louis Botha) p. 4 (commandant-general of South African Rep.) LC data base, 3/22/84 (hdg.: Botha, Louis, 1862-1919) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed June 08, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Botha, Louis; political figure, prime minister, foreign military official, farmer; born 27 September 1862 in Greytown, South Africa; district field-cornet or militia official for Vryheid when the short-lived New Republic was incorporated into the South African Republic or Transvaal (1888); Vryheid representative in the South African Republic's Volksraad or parliament (1896); assumed the command of the Vryheid force and was appointed general, eventually rising to Commandant-General (1900's); in the middle of many of the war's decisive engagements, including the Battle of Spioenkop; championed a settlement with Britain; founded Het Volk, a reconciliatory Afrikaner party committed to unified white self-government of South Africa (1904); backed by English-speaking allies, became prime minister of the Transvaal (1907); first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, forming the South African Party with Jan Smuts (1910); died in September 1919 in Rusthof, Transvaal, South Africa) |
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