List of King's and Queen's commissioners of Zeeland

This article is a list of King's and Queen's commissioners of the province of Zeeland, Netherlands.
The King's commissioner is both the chairman of the States of Zeeland as well as the Provincial executive.^[1] Until 1850 the position was held by the Provincial Governor.^[2]

Coat of arms of Zeeland

List of King's and Queen's commissioners of Zeeland

Governors of Zeeland			Term of office	Party / Political affiliation
		Jacob Hendrik Schorer (1760-1822)	16 May 1814[3] - 18 September 1817[3] (3 years, 125 days)
		Hendrik Jacob van Doorn van Westcapelle (1786-1853)	19 March 1818[4] - 1 December 1826[4] (8 years, 257 days) ([Acting] since 16 July 1817)	Independent (Ultra-conservative)[4]
		Ewout van Vredenburch (1779-1861)	1 August 1826[5] - 1 August 1850[5] (24 years, 0 days)
King's and Queen's commissioners of Zeeland			Term of office	Party / Political affiliation
		Ewout van Vredenburch (1779-1861)	1 August 1850[5] - 1 January 1853[5] (2 years, 153 days)
		Jacob George Hieronymus van Tets van Goudriaan (1812-1885)	1853[1] - 1858[1]	Independent (Liberal)[6]
		Schelto van Heemstra (1807-1864)	29 May 1858[7] - 2 March 1860[7] (1 year, 305 days)	Independent (Pragmatic Liberal)[7]
		Rudolph Willem van Lynden (1808-1876)	15 May 1860[8] - 19 April 1876[8] (15 years, 340 days)	Independent (Conservative-Liberal)[8]
		Willem Six (1829-1908)	1 June 1876[9] - 20 August 1879[9] (3 years, 80 days)	Independent (Moderate Liberal)[9]
		Abraham van Karnebeek (1836-1925)	1 October 1879[10] - 16 June 1884[10] (4 years, 259 days)	League of Free Liberals ("Old-Liberal")[10]
		Willem Maurits de Brauw (1838-1898)	16 June 1884[11] - 29 June 1897[11] (13 years, 13 days)	Independent (Conservative-Liberal)[11]
		Albert Johan Roest (1837-1920)	1 July 1897[12] - 1 May 1906[12] (8 years, 304 days)	Independent ("Old-Liberal")[12]
		Herman Jacob Dijckmeester (1847-1942)	1 May 1906[13] - 1 May 1921[13] (15 years, 0 days)	Independent (Liberal)[13]
		Johan Willem Quarles van Ufford (1882-1952)	1 May 1921[14] - 12 September 1940[14] (19 years, 134 days) [Fired][14]	Independent (Christian-Historical)[14]
		Petrus Dieleman (1873-1961)	13 September 1940[15] – 6 November 1944[16] (4 years, 54 days) [Acting][17]	Anti-Revolutionary Party, since the surrender to Nazi-Germany, a sympathiser of National Socialism.[17]
King's and Queen's commissioners of Zeeland			Term of office	Party / Political affiliation
		Guus de Casembroot (1906-1965)	6 November 1944[18] – 15 November 1944[19] (9 days) [Acting][20]	Independent (Christian-Historical)[20]
		Johan Willem Quarles van Ufford (1882-1952)	15 November 1944[14] - 1 February 1948[14] (3 years, 78 days) [Honorably Discharged][21]	Independent (Christian-Historical)[14]
		Guus de Casembroot (1906-1965)	1 February 1948[20] – 10 February 1965[20] (17 years, 9 days) [Died in Office][20]	Independent (Christian-Historical)[20]
		Jan van Aartsen (1909-1992)	1 June 1965[22] – 1 October 1974[22] (9 years, 122 days)	Anti-Revolutionary Party[22]
		Kees Boertien (1927-2002)	16 January 1975[23] – 1 August 1992[23] (17 years, 198 days)	Anti-Revolutionary Party (1975-1980)[23]
				Christian Democratic Appeal (1980–1992)[23]
		Wim van Gelder (born 1942)	16 September 1992[24] – 1 February 2007[24] (14 years, 138 days)	Christian Democratic Appeal (Anti-Revolutionary)[24]
		Karla Peijs (born 1944)	1 March 2007[25] – 1 March 2013[25] (6 years, 0 days)	Christian Democratic Appeal[25]
		Han Polman (born 1963)	1 March 2013[26] – Incumbent (11 years, 251 days)	Democrats 66[26]

^Resigned

^{Honorably Discharged}

^Fired

^Acting

^{Died in Office}

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