691 Kyösti Kallio

Kyösti Kallio
President of Finland

✶ 10 April 1873 in Niemilä, Ylivieska parish
✟ 19 December 1940 in Helsinki

Appointed

The Royal Palace of Stockholm 15 June 1938

motto

Missing

shield

Painted 1939 by David Friefeldt. Date of death added 1940 by the same artist.

other awards

Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star 1925

Biography

Minister of Agriculture 1917-1918, 1919-1920 and 1921-1922
Prime Minister 1922-1924, 1925-1926 and 1929-1930
Minister of communications 1925
President 1937-1940
Died of a heart attack at Helsinki railway station.

Placement