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Nationality
  
Belgium

Died
  
March 9, 1924

Role
  
Politician


Name
  
Albert Mechelynck

Occupation
  
politician, lawyer

Education
  
Ghent University

Albert Mechelynck

Full Name
  
Albert Josse Louis Mechelynck

Born
  
28 December 1854 (
1854-12-28
)
Ghent, Belgium

Albert Josse Louis Mechelynck (Ghent, 28 December 1854 - 9 March 1924) was a Belgian liberal politician. He was a son of Louis Mechelynck and Pauline Delehaye, daughter of the former mayor of Ghent, Judocus Delehaye. He went to school at the Koninklijk Atheneum at the Ottogracht and studied law at the University of Ghent, where he graduated in 1876.

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Mechelynck worked as a lawyer and became a member of the Provincial Council (1884–1904) of Oost-Vlaanderen. He was also as a liberal member of parliament for the district Gent-Eeklo (1904–1924), and President of the Liberal Party from 1920 until 1921. On 7 June 1925 a statue, made by Hippolyte Leroy, was inaugurated on the Sint-Annaplein in Ghent.

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