List of leaders of New Netherland

This is a list of leaders of post-1796, independent New Netherland. For a list of colonial leaders, see the list of Director-Generals.

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

Main article: List of Director-Generals of New Netherland

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
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

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