Bartel J. Jonkman | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMichigan's5th district | |
| In office February 19, 1940 – January 3, 1949 | |
| Preceded by | Carl Mapes |
| Succeeded by | Gerald Ford |
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| Born | (1884-04-28)April 28, 1884 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | June 13, 1955(1955-06-13) (aged 71) Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan Law School |
Bartel John Jonkman (April 28, 1884 – June 13, 1955) was a politician from theU.S. state ofMichigan.
Jonkman was born inGrand Rapids, Michigan, where he attended the public schools. He was ofDutch descent.[1] He graduated from the law department of theUniversity of Michigan in 1914, was admitted to thebar the same year, and commenced practice in Grand Rapids. He served as assistant prosecutor ofKent County from 1915 to 1920, and as prosecuting attorney from 1929 to 1936.
Following the death ofU.S. RepresentativeCarl E. Mapes, in December 1939, a special election was held on February 19, 1940, to fill the vacancy. Jonkman was elected as aRepublican fromMichigan's 5th congressional district to the76th United States Congress, serving from February 19, 1940, to January 3, 1949. In the 1948 Republican primary, he was defeated for re-nomination byGerald Ford, then 34 years old, who eventually served as the38thPresident of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
A confidential 1943 analysis of theHouse Foreign Affairs Committee byIsaiah Berlin for the BritishForeign Office described Jonkman as[2]
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 beforePearl Harbor, and, in fact, typical of the Michigan RepublicanBloc (whose most notorious member isClare 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 hisisolationist 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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