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By birth A–Z List Cards

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Head of the Finnish Senate who declared independence and sought German intervention in the civil war Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1861–1944
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Jurist who shaped Finland’s republican constitution and, as its first president, sought to reconcile the defeated Reds Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1865–1952
Juho Kusti Paasikivi Juho Kusti Paasikivi Finnish realist who faced Stalin at the 1939 Moscow negotiations and later forged the Paasikivi doctrine of Cold War neutrality Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions 1870–1956
Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio A president shaped by agrarian reform and wartime compromise Agriculture and land policy · Finland state institutions 1873–1940
Oskari Tokoi Oskari Tokoi Finnish labour leader who became the world’s first Social Democratic head of government and then joined the Red government Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1873–1963
Aimo Cajander Aimo Cajander Finnish forest scientist and statesman who built forest-type theory and led the cabinet on the eve of war Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1879–1943
Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1880–1937
Edvard Gylling Edvard Gylling Finnish socialist who was Red Finland’s commissar of finance and later headed the government of Soviet Karelia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1881–1938
Risto Heikki Ryti Risto Ryti Finnish president who, as wartime prime minister, negotiated the Moscow Peace Treaty Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1889–1956
Urho Kekkonen Urho Kekkonen The long-serving president who made neutrality a national strategy Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1900–1986