# Peter Stuyvesant

> The last Dutch governor of New York - back when it was New Amsterdam - who built Wall Street's actual wall, dug the canal that became Broad Street, and left his name on a high school, a neighborhood, and a housing complex three centuries after the English took the colony from him.

*Dutch politician; director-general of New Netherland (1612-1672)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1612
- **Died:** 1672
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Peter Stuyvesant arrived as director-general of New Netherland in 1647 and spent seventeen years pushing the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. His administration laid the infrastructure - the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, Broadway - that would outline the city long after the Dutch were gone. A member of the Dutch Reformed Church, he fought religious pluralism hard, clashing with Lutherans, Jews, Catholics, and Quakers as they tried to build houses of worship and practice openly. In 1664 the colony was provisionally ceded to England, ending his tenure. He died in August 1672, but the city kept his name on landmarks across all five boroughs.

## Fame
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