Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs until the Second Kok cabinet was installed on 3 August 1998. For the Dutch general election of 1998 Van Mierlo was reelected to the House of Representatives on 19 May 1998 but resigned on 18 August 1998. Convention on the Future of Europe Van Mierlo semi-retired from active politics on his sixty-seventh birthday. He served as the first Dutch representative to the Convention on the Future of Europe from 1 March 2002 until 26 September 2002. Following the end of his active political career, Van Mierlo occupied numerous seats on supervisory boards on cultural organizations. Personal He was appointed Minister of State on October 24, 1998, a mainly honorary title for politicians with an extensive history of government service. Hans van Mierlo has been married three times. He has a son from his first marriage and two daughters from the second. Since 1999 Van Mierlo had a relationship with the Dutch writer Connie Palmen; they got married on 11 November 2009, in Amsterdam. Death Hans van Mierlo died on 11 March 2010 at the age of 78; he had been living with a transplanted liver since 2000 which was required after liver failure as a consequence of a hepatitis C contamination contracted from a blood transfusion in 1982. Decorations References External links Official Mr. H.A.F.M.O. (Hans) van Mierlo Parlement & Politiek Mr. H.A.F.M.O. van Mierlo (D66) Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal 1931 births 2010 deaths Chairmen of the Democrats 66 Commanders of the Order of Orange-Nassau Commanders of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur Deaths from hepatitis Democrats 66 politicians Deputy Prime Ministers of the Netherlands Dutch atheists Dutch expatriates in Belgium Dutch expatriates in England Dutch former Christians Dutch humanists Dutch magazine editors Dutch newspaper editors Dutch nonprofit directors Dutch nonprofit executives Dutch political commentators Dutch political journalists Dutch political party founders Dutch political philosophers Dutch political writers Dutch television producers Former Roman Catholics Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Leaders of the Democrats 66 Liver transplant recipients Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Members of the Senate (Netherlands) Ministers of Defence of the Netherlands Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Ministers of State (Netherlands) People from Breda Radboud University Nijmegen alumni Royal Netherlands Army personnel Writers about direct democracy Writers from Amsterdam 20th-century