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Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte

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Thomas B. Pleyte in 1913

Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte (23 October 1864 in Leiden – 25 March 1926 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician.

Pleyte was Minister of the Colonies in the cabinet of Pieter Cort van der Linden. He became known as a liberal minister who founded the People's Council in 1916, a move that is widely regarded as the important first step to give the native population of the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) an equal say in government. Pleyte was fluent in Malay and Javanese.

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Political offices
Preceded byJan Hendrik de Waal Malefijt Minister of Colonial Affairs
1913–1916
Succeeded byJean Jacques Rambonnet
Acting
Preceded byJean Jacques Rambonnet
Acting
Minister of Colonial Affairs
1917–1918
Succeeded byAlexander Willem Frederik Idenburg
Ministers of Colonial Affairs of the Netherlands (1848–1945)
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