1. Johan Henri Eliza Ferrier was a Surinamese politician who served as the 1st president of Suriname from 1975 to 1980.
21 Facts About Johan Ferrier
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Johan Ferrier was the country's last governor-general before independence, serving from 1968 to 1975, before becoming the first president upon independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1975.
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Johan Ferrier was named the twentieth century's most important politician in Suriname in 1999.
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Johan Ferrier was co-founder of the Boy Scouts van Suriname and its first Chief Scout.
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In 1946, Johan Ferrier was one of the founding members of the National Party of Suriname.
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Johan Ferrier was a member of the National Council from 1946 until 1948.
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Johan Ferrier then went to Amsterdam in the Netherlands to learn education theory.
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Johan Ferrier served as both prime minister and interior minister for a three-year period from 1955 until 1958.
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On 25 November 1975, Suriname was made independent, and Johan Ferrier was sworn in as the first president of the country.
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Desi Bouterse's 1980 coup d'etat prompted Johan Ferrier to resign within six months.
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Johan Ferrier was made a Grand Cordon in the Honorary Order of the Yellow Star by Chin A Sen on 3 September 1980.
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Johan Ferrier's wife was made a Grand Officer in the Honorary Order of the Palm.
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Johan Ferrier then accompanied his relatives to live in the Netherlands.
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Johan Ferrier used to tell stories about the spider Anansi on Dutch children's television.
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Johan Ferrier's daughter, Kathleen Ferrier, is a former member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Christian Democratic Appeal.
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In 2005, Ferrier's memoirs Last Governor, First President: The Century of Johan Ferrier, Surinamese were published.
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Johan Ferrier died from heart failure while sleeping at home in Oegstgeest at the age of 99.
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Johan Ferrier's body was found in the early morning on 4 January 2010.
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Johan Ferrier was buried on 11 January 2010, in the Dutch town of Oegstgeest, where he had been living since 1980.
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On 12 May 2010, the day Ferrier would have celebrated his 100th birthday, the Johan Ferrier Fund was officially launched.
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The Johan Ferrier Fund is an initiative of his daughter Joan Ferrier, who first presented the fund in the presence of her father in September 2009.