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Jim Haadsma

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ74733492 ↗
Source-derived summary

James T. Haadsma (born January 27, 1958) is a Democratic politician. He served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, representing the 44th district, from 2019 to 2024.

Before being elected to the state legislature, Haadsma was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1984.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jim Haadsma” as american politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 2019, 2024, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Haadsma, American and politician can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q74733492. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958, 2019, 2024 and 1984.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jim Haadsma” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.