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'''Gerrit John Diekema''' (March 27, 1859 – December 20, 1930) was a politician from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]].

==Biography==
Diekema was born in [[Holland, Michigan]], where he attended the common schools and graduated from [[Hope College]] in 1881. In 1883, he graduated from the law department of the [[University of Michigan]] at [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]], was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted]] to the [[bar (law)|bar]], and commenced practice in Holland.

== Career ==
Diekema became a city attorney and a member of the [[Michigan State House of Representatives]] serving from 1885 to 1891 from Ottawa County 1st District, serving as speaker from 1889 to 1890. He became mayor of Holland in 1895 and chairman of the [[Michigan Republican Party]] ten consecutive years from 1900 to 1910. He was a delegate to the [[1896 Republican National Convention]] and a member of the [[Spanish Treaty Claims Commission]] from 1901 until he resigned in May 1907.

He was elected April 27, 1907, as a [[Republican (United States)|Republican]] from [[Michigan's 5th congressional district]] to the [[60th United States Congress|Sixtieth Congress]], to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[William Alden Smith]]. He was subsequently re-elected to the [[61st United States Congress|Sixty-first Congress]], serving from May 15, 1907,<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-herald/130078905/|title=Becomes Congressman|date=May 15, 1907|work=The Times Herald))</ref> to March 3, 1911. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress and resumed the practice of law in Holland, Michigan.

He became manager of the Republican Speakers’ Bureau in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] in 1912 and a candidate in the primary for [[Governor of Michigan]] in 1916. He was a delegate to the [[1924 Republican National Convention]] from Michigan. After seventeen years he was re-elected chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, serving from 1927 to 1929, a record total of twelve years.

Diekema was appointed [[United States Ambassador to the Netherlands|United States Minister to the Netherlands]] by President [[Herbert Hoover]] on August 20, 1929, and served until December 1930.<ref name="politicalgraveyard_diekema">((cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#741.60.53 |title=Diekema, Gerrit John (1859-1930) |website=politicalgraveyard.com |access-date=February 21, 2010))</ref>

== Personal life ==
On December 20, 1930, Diekema died in [[The Hague]], [[Netherlands]]. Diekema was interred in Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Holland, Michigan.<ref name="politicalgraveyard_diekema"/>

==Bibliography==
* ((cite book | last=Schrier | first=William | year=1970 | title=Gerrit J. Diekema, orator; a rhetorical study of the political and occasional addresses of Gerrit J. Diekema | publisher = W. B. Eerdmans | location=Grand Rapids |oclc=692685))
* ((cite book |last=Vander Hill |first=Charles Warren |year=1970 |title= Gerrit J. Diekema |publisher=W. B. Eerdmans |location=Grand Rapids |oclc=96421))

==References==
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* ((CongBio|D000336))
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#741.60.53 Gerrit John Diekema entry] at [[The Political Graveyard]]

==External links==
((Portal|Biography|Politics))
* ((Find a Grave|7449157))

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