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unusual facts about junior minister



First Balkenende cabinet

Philomena Bijlhout, the staatssecretaris (Undersecretary, or junior minister) for Social Affairs and Work Opportunity and a member of the LPF, resigned after RTL 4 reported that she had been a member of a militia of Surinamese military dictator Dési Bouterse in 1982 and 1983.


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Assault of Ayacucho prison

He started singing The International, who started the meeting was Aurelio comrade "Self," junior minister and military command of the zonal committee of Ayacucho.

Eldon Griffiths

He served as a junior minister for Environment and Sport during the Edward Heath government of 1970 to 1974.

Gordon Oakes

Oakes served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary from 1966, and in the government of Harold Wilson as a junior minister and as a Minister of State under James Callaghan.

Guillaume Garot

After the French legislative elections of 2012, Guillaume Garot was nominated Junior Minister for the Food Industry, under the authority of Stéphane Le Foll in the Jean-Marc Ayrault government.

John Stonehouse

He served as a junior minister of aviation, where he was involved in BOAC's order of Boeing 707 aircraft from the USA, against his own recommendation that they should buy a British aircraft, the Super VC10.

Joop Wijn

In the second Balkenende cabinet he was junior Minister of Finance, and among other things responsible for the functioning of the Internal Revenue Service.

Lazarus Tembo

He was born in the Eastern province of Zambia, went blind at the age of eight, and eventually, under President Kaunda, became Zambia's Junior Minister of Culture.

Melanie Johnson

From 1999 to 2005 Johnson was a junior minister serving first as Economic Secretary to the Treasury, next in the DTI as Minister for Competition and Consumers, and finally as Minister for Public Health in the Department of Health.

Rooswijk

They were presented to Junior Minister of Finance Joop Wijn in Plymouth on 11 December 2005.

Tina Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston

On 18 September 2011, Lady Stowell was appointed a Baroness-in-Waiting to HM The Queen, following the promotion of the former Lord-in-Waiting Lord Taylor of Holbeach to be a junior Minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.