Juho Sunila | |
Office: | 11th Prime Minister of Finland[1] |
Term Start: | 21 March 1931 |
Term End: | 14 December 1932 |
President: | Pehr Evind Svinhufvud |
Predecessor: | Pehr Evind Svinhufvud |
Successor: | Toivo Mikael Kivimäki |
Term Start2: | 17 December 1927 |
Term End2: | 22 December 1928 |
President2: | Lauri Kristian Relander |
Predecessor2: | Väinö Tanner |
Successor2: | Oskari Mantere |
Office3: | Speaker of the Parliament of Finland |
Term Start3: | 8 July 1930 |
Term End3: | 20 October 1930 |
Predecessor3: | Paavo Virkkunen |
Successor3: | Kyösti Kallio |
Office4: | Minister of Agriculture |
Term Start4: | 31 March 1925 |
Term End4: | 13 December 1926 |
Primeminister4: | Antti Tulenheimo Kyösti Kallio |
Predecessor4: | Ilmari Auer |
Successor4: | Mauno Pekkala |
Term Start5: | 14 November 1922 |
Term End5: | 18 January 1924 |
Primeminister5: | Kyösti Kallio |
Predecessor5: | Östen Elfving |
Successor5: | Östen Elfving |
Birth Name: | Johan Emil Sunila |
Birth Date: | 16 August 1875 |
Birth Place: | Liminka, Finland |
Death Place: | Helsinki, Finland |
Party: | Agrarian |
Johan (Juho) Emil Sunila (16 August 1875 – 2 October 1936) was a Finnish politician from the Agrarian League, the managing director of the agrarian finance board, and Prime Minister of Finland in two cabinets.[2] He was born in Liminka.
After Santeri Alkio had withdrawn from the Parliament of Finland in 1922, Sunila became, in addition to Kyösti Kallio, the second of the Agrarian Party's strong members in the 1920s. Supported by the agrarian-background governor of the province of Viipuri and the President of Finland Lauri Kristian Relander, he supported productive agrarianism, where the attention of politics was concentrated mainly on making agrarianism more effective instead of widespread improvement of the countryside.
Sunila's first cabinet lasted from December 1927 to December 1928 and his second cabinet lasted from March 1931 to December 1932. Before this, Sunila had served as Minister of Agriculture in two of Kyösti Kallio's cabinets and Antti Tulenheimo's cabinet.[3]
Sunila died in Helsinki, aged 61.