Kalle Kankari Explained

Kalle Kankari
Office1:Member of the Parliament of Finland
Constituency1:Uusimaa
Term Start1:5 September 1922
Term End1:17 October 1923
Birth Name:Kaarle August Kankari
Birth Date:28 January 1889
Birth Place:Paimio, Russian Empire
Death Place:Turku, Finland
Party:Socialist Workers' Party

Kaarle August Kankari (28 January 18895 June 1948) was a Finnish trade unionist, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature. A member of the Socialist Workers' Party, he represented Uusimaa between September 1922 and October 1923.[1]

Kankari was born on 28 January 1889 in Paimio.[1] He was a carpenter in Uskela and Helsinki.[1] He was chairman of the Finnish Woodworkers Union (Finnish: Suomen Puutyöntekijäin Liitto) from 1917 to 1918 and from 1919 to 1921.[1] Kankari was imprisoned for political reasons following the end of the Finnish Civil War in 1918.[1] He was released in 1919.[1] He was a Finnish Trade Union Federation official from 1921 to 1922 and chairman of the Finnish Sawmill, Transport and Mixed Workers Union (Finnish: Suomen Saha-, Kuljetus- ja Sekatyöväen Liitto) from 1922 to 1924.[1]

Kankari was imprisoned again in August 1923 and a third time in the early 1930s.[1] He was a Finnish Paper Association (Finnish: Suomen Paperiliitto) official from 1929 to 1930.[1] He was a carpenter in Turku until his death on 5 June 1948.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kansanedustajat: Kalle Kankari . Members of Parliament: Kalle Kankari . . 12 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190311223418/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/910673.aspx . 11 March 2019 . Helsinki, Finland . fi.