Nestori Kaasalainen | |
Office1: | Minister of Agriculture |
Term Start1: | 27 May 1966 |
Term End1: | 21 March 1968 |
Predecessor1: | Mauno Jussila |
Successor1: | Martti Miettunen |
Term Start2: | 15 July 1970 |
Term End2: | 28 February 1971 |
Predecessor2: | Nils Westermarck |
Successor2: | Samuli Suomela |
Office3: | Minister of Agriculture and Forestry |
Term Start3: | 1 March 1971 |
Term End3: | 28 October 1971 |
Predecessor3: | Nils Westermarck |
Successor3: | Samuli Suomela |
Birth Date: | 14 February 1915 |
Birth Place: | Pyhäjärvi, Finland |
Death Place: | Sipoo, Finland |
Party: | Agrarian League |
Nestor Johannes "Nestori" Kaasalainen (14 February 1915 - 1 March 2016) was a Finnish politician who served twice as Finland's Minister of Agriculture, whose active career spanned the 1950s and 1960s. He was elected from his home town of Tyrvää (later Vammala, the six rural union (later Keskustan) parliamentary district, he represented the northern election of Turku county. After his career as a member of parliament, he moved from 1972 to 1980 as an administrative director and member of the board of directors at Alko. [1]
Kaasalainen died in Sipoo on 1 March 2016 at the age of 101.[2]