Bartel J. Jonkman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bartel J. Jonkman

American politician

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1884

Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jun-1955

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Bartel J. Jonkman

  • Bartel John Jonkman (April 28, 1884 – June 13, 1955) was a politician from the U.S.
  • state of Michigan. Jonkman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he attended the public schools.
  • He was of Dutch descent.
  • He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1914, was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced practice in Grand Rapids.
  • He served as assistant prosecutor of Kent County from 1915 to 1920, and as prosecuting attorney from 1929 to 1936. Following the death of U.S.
  • Representative Carl E.
  • Mapes, in December 1939, a special election was held on February 19, 1940 to fill the vacancy.
  • Jonkman was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 5th congressional district to the 76th United States Congress, serving from February 19, 1940 to January 3, 1949.
  • In the 1948 Republican primary, he was defeated for re-nomination by Gerald Ford, then 34 years old, who eventually served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974–1977. A confidential 1943 analysis of the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Isaiah Berlin for the British Foreign Office described Jonkman as the fourth of the Republican Opposition group on the committee.
  • An agreeable man, shrewd, capable and very determined in his opposition to the Administration in both its foreign and domestic policies.
  • Pure Isolationist before Pearl Harbour, and, in fact, typical of the Michigan Republican Bloc (whose most notorious member is Clare Hoffman).
  • Seems convinced America is playing Santa Claus again in this war, and is doing his best to obtain facts and figures which will show up this fact.
  • A Methodist; age 59.
  • Nationalist. Bartel J.
  • Jonkman had become unpopular largely due to his isolationist position on foreign policy.
  • He resumed the practice of law and died in Grand Rapids.
  • He was interred there in Woodlawn Cemetery.

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