Auguste Orts

Auguste Orts
President of the Chamber of Representatives
In office 19 July 1859 – 23 November 1860
Preceded by	Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
Succeeded by	Désiré Vervoort
Personal details
Born	(1814-04-07)7 April 1814 Brussels, France (now Belgium)
Died	3 November 1880(1880-11-03) (aged 66) Brussels, Belgium
Political party	Liberal Party
Relations	Orts family

Auguste Engelbert Pierre Orts (7 April 1814 – 3 November 1880), was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician.

Auguste Orts was a Lawyer, magistrate, professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and alderman of Brussels. He was President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 19 July 1859 until 18 July 1860 and Minister of State.

See also

• Liberal Party
• Liberalism in Belgium

Sources

• Auguste Engelbert Pierre Orts
• Mesdach de ter Kiele, in : Biographie Nationale, Brussels, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts, 1866–1986, XVI, 1901, kol. 334–342.
• Vanderkindere, L., L'Université de Bruxelles 1834–1884, Brussel, 1884, p. 183-184.
• De Paepe, Jean-Luc, Raindorf-Gérard, Christiane (ed.), Le Parlement Belge 1831-1894. Données Biographiques, Brussels, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1996, p. 447-448.