Jean Chrétien, Baron Baud (1789–1859) was

Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies The governor-general of the Dutch East Indies ( nl, gouverneur-generaal van Nederlands Indië) represented Dutch rule in the Dutch East Indies between 1610 and Dutch recognition of the independence of Indonesia in 1949. Occupied by Japanese fo ...

from 1833 until 1836.J.Ch. Baud
''Parlement & Politiek''. Retrieved on 20 January 2015. He was born in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

on 23 October 1789. He was a civil servant and politician who served under

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and

William II of the Netherlands William II ( nl, Willem Frederik George Lodewijk, anglicized as William Frederick George Louis; 6 December 1792 – 17 March 1849) was King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg. William II was the son of William ...

. He sped through the ranks of the civil service until he reached the post of Vice President of the Council for the Dutch East Indies. Following

Johannes van den Bosch Johannes, Count van den Bosch (2 February 1780 – 28 January 1844) was a Dutch officer and politician. He was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1830–1833), commander of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, Minister of Colonies ...

, as acting Governor-General and, later, Minister for the Colonies, he was a strong defender of the Dutch Colonial policy, the ''

cultuurstelsel The Cultivation System ( nl, cultuurstelsel) was a Dutch government policy from 1830–1870 for its Dutch East Indies colony (now Indonesia). Requiring a portion of agricultural production to be devoted to export crops, it is referred to by Indon ...

'', which required a certain amount of profitable crops to be dedicated to export. He was succeed in 1836 by

Dominique Jacques de Eerens Dominique Jacques de Eerens (17 March 1781 – 30 May 1840) was a Dutch major general, politician and administrator, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and knight of the Military William Order The Military William Order, or often name ...

. He became Minister of the Marine in 1840 and Minister for the Colonies from that year until 1848. After 1848 he was for a few years a

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member for

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of the

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. He died in

on 27 June 1859.

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* 1789 births 1859 deaths Barons of the Netherlands Dutch civil servants Dutch members of the Dutch Reformed Church Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Ministers of Colonial Affairs of the Netherlands Ministers of the Navy of the Netherlands Ministers of State (Netherlands) People from The Hague Dutch people of Swiss descent {{Netherlands-politician-stub