Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte

Thomas B. Pleyte in 1913

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

Pleyte was minister of Colonies in the Cort van der Linden administration. 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 Jan Hendrik de Waal Malefijt	Minister of Colonial Affairs 1913-1916	Succeeded by Jean Jacques Rambonnet (interim)
Preceded by Jean Jacques Rambonnet (interim)	Minister of Colonial Affairs 1917-1918	Succeeded by Alexander Willem Frederik Idenburg

Ministers of Colonial Affairs of the Netherlands (1848–1945)

Rijk Baud Van den Bosch Pahud Mijer Rochussen Lotsy* Van Kraaijenburg Loudon Uhlenbeck Betz* Van de Putte Mijer Trakranen Hasselman De Waal Brocx Van Bosse Van de Putte Van Oldenaller Mees Van Bosse Wichers* Van Rees Van Oldenaller De Brauw Willem Frederik van Erp Taalman Kip* Franciscus Gerard van Bloemen Waanders August Willem Philip Weitzel* Jacobus Petrus Sprenger van Eyk Levinus Wilhelmus Christiaan Keuchenius Æneas Mackay Willem Karel van Dedem Jacob Hendrik Bergsma Jacob Theodoor Cremer Titus van Asch van Wijck Johannes Willem Bergansius* Idenburg Fock Heemskerk* Idenburg De Waal Malefijt Pleyte Rambonnet* Pleyte Idenburg De Beerenbrouck* De Graaff Colijn* Welter Koningsberger De Graaff Colijn Welter Cornelis van den Bussche Welter Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy Van Mook *denotes interim

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Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte

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