Willem "Wim" Kok, Jr. is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from August 22, 1994 until July 22, 2002. A trade union leader by occupation, Kok served as chairman of the Netherlands Association of Trade Unions from 1972 until 1976, when it merged to form the Federation Netherlands Labour Movement, Kok served as its first chairman from 1976 until 1986 when he left to enter politics. He was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives on June 3, 1986, after the Dutch general election of 1986. Soon after the election Joop den Uyl the Party leader of the Labour Party and Parliamentary leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives announced that he was stepping down after serving twenty years as Party leader of the Labour Party. Kok was elected to succeed him and became Party leader of the Labour Party and the Parliamentary leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives on July 21, 1986 and served as Opposition leader during the parliamentary period of the Cabinet Lubbers II. 

September 29th, 1938 in Bergambacht  /  Died:   Oct 20th, 2018