Pieter Wilhelm Adriaan Cort van der Linden (14 May 1846 – 15 July 1935) was a Dutch

Netherlands

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 politician

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. He served as prime minister of the Netherlands between 1913 and 1918.

He was the last prime minister to lead a pure liberal

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 cabinet and the last liberal to be PM until Mark Rutte

Mark Rutte

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 in 2010 (92 years later). However, the cabinet held only a minority in parliament and depended on the support of the social democrats (just like the present liberal-led Dutch minority cabinet is depending on the support of the PVV

Party for Freedom

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).

One of his major achievements was maintaining Dutch neutrality

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 during the First World War, although personally he was pro-German

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.

He also introduced universal suffrage

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 in the Netherlands. Because of this, the Social Democratic Workers' Party

Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands)

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 and the Algemeene Bond van RK-kiesverenigingen

Algemeene Bond van RK-kiesverenigingen

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, a Catholic party, won the 1918 elections. The Catholic Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck

Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck

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 took Cort van der Linden's place as Prime minister.

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