Franciscus Johannes Wilhelmus (French) Drion (The Hague, September 2, 1874 - December 13, 1948) was a Dutch politician. On behalf of the Free Liberal League, he was a member of the Lower House of the States General in the period 1913 to 1922.
Prior to his political career, Drion was a clerk, bookkeeper and mathematician consultant. In the 90's of the 19th century, he felt attracted to anarchism, which was reflected, among other things, in his cooperation with the anarchist-communist monthly newspaper De Anarchist. In 1904 he joined the constituency of the Constitution and in 1906 with the Free Liberal League.
In 1913, Drion was elected for the constituency of Ridderkerk in the Lower House. He spoke in the Chamber on education, labor, finance and fisheries issues. In 1918, he received insufficient p votes for a re-election. In 1920 Drion returned to the Chamber in the meantime. A year later, his party merged with some other liberal parties to the Freedom Union. Drion was re-elected at the Lower House Elections in 1922, but was too low on the list to be re-elected.
Hereafter Drion was Director of the National Bureau for Documentation on the Netherlands and editor of the weekly newspaper La Gazette de Hollande. During World War II he was editor-in-chief of the illegal organization De Toekomst. After the war he joined the SDAP, which took place in the PvdA in 1946. In 1948, Drion died.
Drion is the wife of lawmakers Jan Drion and Huib Drion and grandfather of Coen Drion.
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