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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 Colonies in the Cort van der Linden cabinet. 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 Dutch East Indies (now known as Indonesia) an equal say in government. Pleyte was fluent in Malay and Javanese.

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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Colonial Affairs
1913–1916
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Colonial Affairs
1917–1918
Succeeded by