List of leaders of New Netherland

From Roses, Tulips, & Liberty

Since New Netherland's Autumn War of the late 18th century, the colonial leadership position of Director-General was replaced with the office of the Stadtholder, modeled after that of the pre-Augustine United Provinces. They were appointed by the Patroon Council, a body of the country's elites and landowners. The Republican Revolution in 1903 ushered in democracy, ousting the Stadtholder and installing the Grand Pensionary (Amerikaens: Raedpensionaris) as the popularly elected head of state of the nation.

Director–Generals: 1624–1796

Stadtholders: 1796–1903

Portrait Name Term Affiliation Era
1
Marÿn van der Beeke
(1757–1811)
1796–1811 Foundation era
2
Isaac Kuyter
(1762–1822)
1811–1822
3
Hendrick I
(1765–1836)
1822–1836 Ackerhuys regime
4
Hendrick II
(1789–1867)
1836–1855
5 Lodewÿck
(1812–1870)
1855–1870
6 Herman de Carpentier
(1826–1894)
1870–1874 Second Constitution
7 Jan-Maryn de Boetsselaer
(1831–1883)
1874–1876
8 Johan de Kleyn
(1840–1913)
1876–1880
9 Albertus May
(1816–1884)
1880–1884
10 Carel van Twiller
(1852–1928)
1884–1888
11
Quincey van Moock
(1841–1925)
1888–1900
12
Jan Theodorus de Gelüs-Clérisseau
Jan Theodorus de Gelüs-Clérisseau
Theodorus de Gelüs-Clérisseau
(1866–1950)
1900–1903

Grand Pensionaries: from 1903

Portrait Name Term Affiliation Era
1
Jan Theodorus de Gelüs-Clérisseau
Jan Theodorus de Gelüs-Clérisseau
Mees van Haerst
(1867–1936)
1903–1911 Unity Party Haerst era
2
Margnus Cornelius Bartelsz
Magnus Bartelsz
(1870–1952)
1911–1919 Progressive Party Golden era
3
Johannes Karsen
(1869–1930)
1919–1923
4
Maurits Thomas Hudson
(1878–1949)
1923–1927
5
Christiaen Huysman
(1885–1971)
1927–1931 Free Destiny Party
6
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Jan Kaspar Knip
(1897–1981)
1931–1939
7
Abraham Boot
(1897–1963)
1939–1943 Post-war period
8
Frank Zuylen
(1893–1949)
1943–1947 United Patriotic Front
9
Edgar Güman
(1902–1973)
1947–1955 Güman Bloc Güman era
10
Marieke Güman
(1913–1987)
1955–1964
11
S. S. de Haese
(b. 1927)
1964–1971 Zeyven Party Zeyven era
12
Cornelis Holowatie
1971–1974 Zeyven Party

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