Jan Elias Nicolaas Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Who was Jan Elias Nicolaas Schimmelpenninck van der Oye?

Jan Elias Nicolaas baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye was a Dutch politician.

Schimmelpenninck van der Oye was a general of military engineering who, as a member of the Anti Revolutionary Party, became both a member of the member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands and of the Senate of the Netherlands. He served as president of the senate between 1902 and 1914. He was preceded by Albertus van Naamen van Eemnes and was in turn succeeded by Jan Joseph Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst.