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Kyösti Kallio

Kyösti Kallio
Kyösti Kallio, Finnish farmer, banker, and politician, 4th President of Finland (d. 1940)

Kyösti Kallio was a Finnish politician who served as the fourth president of Finland from 1937 to 1940. His presidency included leading the country through the Winter War; while he relinquished the post of commander-in-chief to Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, he played a role as a spiritual leader. After the war, he became both the first President of Finland to resign and the only one to die in office, dying of a heart attack while returning home after submitting his resignation.

10 April 1873

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