Gerrit J. Diekema

Gerrit John Diekema ( born March 27, 1859 in Holland, Michigan, † December 20, 1930 in The Hague, Netherlands ) was an American politician. Between 1908 and 1911 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since 1929 he was United States Ambassador to the Netherlands.

Career

Gerrit Diekema attended the public schools of his home, including the Hope College, which he completed in 1881. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made in 1883 admitted to the bar he began in his native Holland to work in his new profession. Diekema was also legal representatives of this city. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party.

Between 1885 and 1891 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan, which he was president in 1889. In 1895, Diekema was elected mayor of Holland. Between 1900 and 1910 he was chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan. This function should he practice again 1927-1929. In 1896, Diekema was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, on the William McKinley was nominated as a presidential candidate. Between 1901 and 1907 he was a member of a committee advising on claims under the peace treaty after the Spanish-American War of 1898.

Following the resignation of Congressman William Alden Smith Diekema was at the due election for the fifth seat of Michigan as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 17 March 1908. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1911 at the Congress. In the congressional elections of 1910, Diekema defeated Democrat Edwin F. Sweet. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again in Holland. In 1912 he worked at the party headquarters of Republicans in Chicago.

In 1916, he ran unsuccessfully in the gubernatorial primaries; In 1924 he was again a delegate to the Republican national convention, at which President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for re-election. In August 1929 he was appointed by President Herbert Hoover as ambassador to the Netherlands. This office he held until his death on 20 December 1930 in The Hague. He was buried in his hometown of Holland.

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