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Simon de Graaff

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Born:
Aug. 24, 1861, Lisse, Neth.
Died:
Oct. 2, 1948, Oegstgeest (aged 87)
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Simon de Graaff (born Aug. 24, 1861, Lisse, Neth.—died Oct. 2, 1948, Oegstgeest) was a Dutch statesman who, as colonial minister (1919–25), reorganized the administration of the Dutch East Indies and had the Indies’ constitution revised so conservatively that it aroused nationalist fervour there. De Graaff began his career in the Dutch East Indies’ Ministry of the Interior and by 1913 was a member of the Council of the Indies. After de Graaff became colonial minister, he revived an old plan of his to create provinces and restructure the administrative hierarchy. De Graaff also enacted the paternalistic Village Regulation, which ...(100 of 120 words)

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