Party Catholic Party | Died 16 September 1930 | |
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Julien Auguste Marie Joseph Baron (Kortrijk, June 22, 1848 - Ternat, September 16, 1930) was a Belgian Member of Parliament, Senator and Minister for the Catholic Party.
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Biography
Liebaert was a son of Auguste and Louise Liebaert Peel. He married Marie Debontridder (1852-1916) in 1874. They had two sons and a daughter who married representative and senator Jean Mahieu.
He obtained a doctorate in law (1870) and doctorate in political and administrative sciences (1871) from the Catholic University of Leuven. He established himself as a lawyer in Brussels and then in Kortrijk.
He was elected member of the provincial council (1877-1890) and deputy (1878-1890) of West Flanders.
In 1890 he was elected deputy for the district of Kortrijk and held this office until 1919. He was elected senator in 1919 for the same district, to sit as a co-opted senator from 1925 to 1929.
Liebaert went through a varied ministerial career for twelve years as:
In 1912 he was appointed Minister of State and he became director (1912-1926) and governor (1927-1930) of the National Bank of Belgium.