Ernst Carel Bakker (16 April 1946 – 8 February 2014) was a Dutch

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and member of the

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political party. He served as a member of the

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from 1981 to 1982. He joined the

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City Council in 1990 before becoming a city

beginning in 1992. Bakker relocated to

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in 1998 to become Mayor, a position he held until his retirement in 2011. Bakker died on 8 February 2014 in Hilversum, at the age of 67.

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Parlement.com biography
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