Alfred Claeys-Boùùaert (colonial administrator)

Alfred Marie Joseph Ghislain Claeys Bouuaert was born on 31 mars 1906 in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium.[1][2] His parents were Léon Marie Joseph Ghislain Claeys-Boúúaert (1879–1971) and Thérèse van der Straeten (1880–1969). His paternal grandfather was the lawyer and senator Alfred Louis Fernand Ghislain Claeys-Boúúaert.[2] He obtained a doctorate in Law.[3] On 11 January 1936 he married Ghislaine de Patoul (1911–2004).[2]

In 1949 Claeys-Boúúaert was chef de cabinet to Pierre Wigny, the Belgian Minister of the Colonies.[4] In November 1950 Robert Daniel Murphy, the American ambassador to Brussels, visited the Belgian Congo. He was accompanied by Claeys Boúúaert, Wigny's Chief of Staff, on a 20-day tour of the main centers of economic activity in the country including several mining operations.[5]

Claeys-Boúúaert was appointed acting governor of Ruanda-Urundi on 1 January 1952, replacing Léo Pétillon. On 1 March 1955 he was replaced by Jean-Paul Harroy, the last governor before independence.[6]

In March 1956 Claeys-Boúúaert was an alternate to the Belgian representative to the United Nations General Assembly, Pierre Ryckmans. He represented Belgium to the Food and Agriculture Organization.[7] The 21st session of the United Nations Trusteeship Council met from 30 January to 26 March 1958. Emilio Arenales Catalán of Guatemala was elected president and Claeys-Bouuaert was elected vice-president. At the end of the session Arenales said he would no longer represent Guatelama in the United Nations, and Claeys-Bouuaert became acting president for the remainder of the year.[8] In 1959 Claeys-Bouuaert was part of the United Nations Visiting Mission in Truk.[9]

Alfred Claeys Bouuaert died in Uccle on 9 October 1993. His estate passed to his surviving wife, Ghislaine de Patoul, and his three children, Thierry, Marie- Christine Jeanne and Donatienne.[10]