Juho Sunila

Juho Sunila
Prime Minister of Finland
In office March 21, 1931 – December 14, 1932
President	Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Preceded by	Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Succeeded by	Toivo Mikael Kivimäki
In office December 17, 1927 – December 22, 1928
President	Lauri Kristian Relander
Preceded by	Väinö Tanner
Succeeded by	Oskari Mantere
Personal details
Born	16 August 1875 Liminka, Finland
Died	2 October 1936 (aged 61) Helsinki, Finland
Political party	Agrarian League

Johan (Juho) Emil Sunila (August 16, 1875 in Liminka – October 2, 1936 in Helsinki) was a Finnish politician from the Agrarian League, the managing director of the agrarian finance board, and Prime Minister of Finland in two cabinets.^[1]

After Santeri Alkio had withdrawn from the Parliament of Finland in 1922, Sunila became, in addition to Kyösti Kallio, the second of the Agrarian Party's strong members in the 1920s.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 agrariarism, where the attention of politics was concentrated mainly on making agrariarism 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.^[2]

References

1. "Ministerikortisto". Valtioneuvosto.
2. "Edustajamatrikkeli". Eduskunta.