Jacob Adriaan Nicolaas Patijn

Jacob Adriaan Nicolaas Patijn (9 February 1873 in Rotterdam – 13 July 1961 in The Hague) was an unaffiliated liberal Dutch politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from October 1, 1937 until August 12, 1939. Family J.A.N. Patijn was a member of the Patijn family which provided numerous politicians to the Netherlands. He was a son of Jacob Gerard Patijn, lawyer and politician, and Adriana Jacoba Clasina Veeren. In 1903 he married Rudolphine van Doorn (1880-1923) and, after her death at a relatively young age, remarried Elisabeth Wilhelmina Malwina de Brauw (1881-1954). From both marriages no child was born. Career J.A.N. Patijn started his career in diplomacy and then became a civil servant. He was mayor of Leeuwarden from 1 October 1911 to 1918, where he was also deputy judge of the district court from 1912 to 1918. He then became mayor of The Hague from September 1918 until 1930.