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1. Geurt van Beuningen (1565)

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Geurt van Beuningen was the son of a cheese-dealer mayor of Amsterdam and administrator of the Dutch East India Company. He was one of the first of the VOC's subscribers...

2. Nicolaes Geelvinck (1706)

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Nicolaes Geelvinck was lord of Castricum Bakkum Santpoort Velsen Stabroek schepen and owner of the country estate Akerendam-by-Beverwijk. He was appointed as mayor of Amsterdam in 1747 but in 1748...

3. Cornelis de Graeff (1599)

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Cornelis de Graeff also Cornelis de Graeff van Polsbroek was the most illustrious member of the De Graeff family. He was a mayor of Amsterdam from the Dutch Golden Age...

4. Petrus Josephus Johannus Sophia Marie van der Does de Willebois (1843)

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Petrus Josephus Johannus Sophia Marie van der Does de Willebois was a Dutch jonkheer and politician for the RKSP. He was mayor of 's-Hertogenbosch and member of the senate of...

5. Volkert Overlander (1570)

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Volkert Overlander was a Dutch noble jurist ship-owner merchant and an Amsterdam regent from the Dutch Golden Age.

6. Gerrit Brokx (1933)

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Gerardus Philippus Brokx was a Dutch politician.

7. Gerard Arnout Hasselaer (1698)

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Gerard Arnout Hasselaer was a burgomaster and counsellor of the city of Amsterdam and a Director of the Dutch East India Company. Some historians have said he was an able...

8. Cornelis Geelvinck (1621)

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Cornelis Geelvinck was important in the city administration of Amsterdam that arose after stadholder William III came to power in 1672 both as administrator and as mayor in the years...

9. Joan Huydecoper II (1625)

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Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen II was the eldest son of burgomaster Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen I and the brother-in-law of the collector Jan J. Hinlopen and the sheriff Jacob Boreel....

10. Cornelis Hooft (Unknow)

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Cornelis Pietersz. Hooft was a Dutch statesman. He was the grandson of Pieter Willemsz. Hooft a Zaanse grain merchant and shipmaster and the father of the poet and dramatist Pieter...

11. Jan Gerard Kemmerling (1776)

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Jan Gerard Kemmerling was mayor of Heerlen and Nieuwenhagen. When the French arrived in Heerlen in 1795 Kemmerling sympathized with their ideas of Enlightenment and revolution. He became secretary at...

12. Jacob Dircksz de Graeff (1579)

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Jacob Dircksz de Graeff was one of the most illustrious members of the De Graeff family. He was a powerful member of the States Faction regent and mayor of Amsterdam...

13. Frans Banning Cocq (Unknow)

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Knight Frans Banning Cocq was a burgemeester of Amsterdam in the mid-17th century. He is best known as the central figure in Rembrandt's masterpiece The Night Watch.

14. Diederik Jansz. Graeff (Unknow)

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Diederik Jansz Graeff also Dirk Jansz Graeff Lord of the manor Vredenhof first illustrious member of the De Graeff family was a rich merchant ship-owner and politician. Diederik Graeff was...

15. Johan Kievit (Unknow)

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Johan Kievit was an Orangist Rotterdam Regent who may have been one of the instigators of the murder of former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt of the Dutch Republic and...

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