List of leaders of New Netherland

New Netherland is the twelfth European colony in the Americas which has morphed into a modern state.

This is a list of leaders in post-independence New Netherland. For the list of colonial leaders, see List of Director-Generals of New Netherland.

This is a list that encompasses the heads of state and of government of New Netherland from the country's independence from the Netherlands in 1796 until present day.

Until 1796, the colony was ruled by a series of Director-Generals. The Autumn War of the 1790s gave the country its independence, replacing the position of Director-General with New Netherland's own stadtholder. These stadtholders were exclusively from and appointed by the Patroon Council, the main executive organ of the state. The Republican Revolution of 1903 established a democratically elected head of state and government, the Grand Pensionary (also known as the raedpensionaris), named after the Dutch Republic's head of state.

Stadtholders: 1796–1903

Nº	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	Theodorus de Gelüs-Clérisseau(1866–1950)	1900–1903

Grand Pensionaries: from 1903

Nº	Portrait	Name	Term	Affiliation	Era
1	Jan Theodorus de Gelüs-Clérisseau	Mees van Haerst (1867–1936)	1903–1911	Unity Party	Haerst era
2		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	RTL_Jan_Kaspar_Knip.jpg	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 (Unity Party, National Republican Party, etc.)
9		Edgar Güman (1902–1973)	1947–1955	Güman Bloc (Free Destiny Party, Labor Party)	Güman era
10		Marieke Güman (1913–1987)	1955–1964
11		S. S. de Haese (b. 1927)	1964-1971	Tesamenbouw van Nieuw Zeyven	Zeyven Party era
12		Cornelis Holowatie	1971-1974	Tesamenbouw van Nieuw Zeyven	Zeyven Party era

Notes

1. ^ Nicolaes Zacutto is the first New Netherland leader to have been born in the country. He is the descendant of Portuguese Jewish immigrants from the failed Dutch colony of New Holland (1630–1654, modern Pernambuco).

See also

• List of Director-Generals of New Netherland
• New Netherland
• History of New Netherland