Augustin Dumon-Dumortier

Augustin Aimable Dumon - Dumortier ( born December 4, 1791 in Lille, France, † January 28, 1852 in Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium) was a Belgian industrialist, diplomat and President of the Senate.

Biography

After his marriage to Euphrosine Agnès Dumortier, he became a co-owner and later sole owner of large lime-kiln of their father in Tournai. In order to prevail even stronger against the local competition he founded with a competitor, Count Alberic du Chastel, an association for the purchase of lime.

After his naturalization in the newly created state of Belgium in 1831, he was also active politically and was first a member of the municipal council of Tournau and then in 1835 as representative of the Liberal member of the Senate. For his services he was in 1843 Knight of the Order of Leopold. On August 12, 1847, he was appointed governor of the province of Hainaut.

After a law in 1848 forbidding the simultaneous membership of the Senate and the work as a provincial governor, he resigned as governor and was instead on June 27, 1848 President of the Senate. At the same time he was also mayor of Tournai. When he in 1849 as President of the Senate to the throne of the Dutch King William III. attended, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown. The Office of the Senate President, he held until his death.