Party: | Social Democratic Party of Finland |
Constituency Mp: | Häme South constituency |
Term Start: | 1 September 1933 |
Term End: | 5 April 1945 |
Parliament: | Finnish |
Birth Date: | 13 February 1892 |
Birth Place: | Mäntsälä, Grand Duchy of Finland |
Death Place: | Riihimäki, Finland |
Väinö Viljam Sinisalo (13 February 1892 – 27 March 1951) was a Finnish politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland 1933–1945 for the Social Democratic Party of Finland.
Sinisalo was born to a poor farmworkers family. He started working at the age of 11 as a farmworker in the Kytäjä Mansion in Hyvinkää. In the 1918 Finnish Civil War, Sinisalo fought for the Red Guards. He was captured by the Whites and sentenced for 5 years in prison but pardoned in 1919. After the war, Sinisalo worked as a janitor at the local worker's hall in Herajoki, Riihimäki.[1] He was a member of the parliament 1933-1945 and a presidential elector in 1937, 1940 and 1943.[2]
Väinö Sinisalo is the father of the actor Veikko Sinisalo and the great-grandfather of the footballer Viljami Sinisalo.[1] [3]