FINLAND
Michelle Yvonna Bagui Dinglasan

List of Presidents

Name: Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg

Birth : 28 January 1865, Suomussalmi

Death : 22 September 1952, Helsinki

Elected: 1919

Took Office: 25 July 1919

Left Office: 1 March 1925

Party: National Progressive Party (ED)

 >Speaker of Parliament 1914–1917, elected President by the Parliament in 1919

Name: Lauri Kristian Relander

Birth : 31 May 1883,Kurkijoki

Death : 9 February 1942, Helsinki

Elected: 1925

Took Office: 1 March 1925

Left Office: 1 March 1931

Party: Agrarian League (ML)

 > Speaker of Parliament 1919–1920, elected President by electoral college in 1925 

Name: Pehr Evind Svinhufvud

Birth :  15 December 1861 , Saaksmaki

Death : 29 February 1942 , Luumaki

Elected: 1931

Took Office: 1 March 1931

Left Office: 1 March 1937 

Party: National Coalition Party (KOK)

 > Speaker of Parliament 1907-1912,Regent (Interim Head of State) of Finland 1918; Prime Minister 1917-1918 and 1930-1931,elected President by electoral college in 1931.

Name: Kyösti Kallio

Birth :  10 April 1873, Ylivieska

Death : 19 December 1940, Helsinki

Elected: 1937

Took Office: 1 March 1937

Left Office: 19 December 1940

Party: Agrarian League (ML)

 > Speaker of Parliament 1920–1921, 1922, 1924–1925, 1929 and 1930–1936, Prime Minister 1922–1924, 1925–1926, 1929–1930 and 1936–1937, elected President by electoral college in 1937. Resigned in 1940 because of poor health, whereupon Risto Ryti became acting President; died in office.

Name: Risto Ryti 

Birth :  3 February 1889, Huittinen

Death : d. 25 October 1956, Helsinki

Elected:1940-1943

Took Office:19 December 1940

Left Office:1 August 1944

Party: National Progressive Party (ED)

 > Prime Minister 1939–1940 and during his Presidential term 1940–1941; elected President by electoral college in 1940; re-elected in 1943; resigned in 1944

Name: Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Birth : 4 June 1867, Askainen

Death :  27 January 1951, Lausanne, Switzerland

Elected: -

Took Office: 4 August 1944

Left Office: 4 March 1946

Party: Non-Partisan Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces

 > Regent (Interim Head of State) of Finland 1918–1919; the only marshal of Finland; elected President in 1944 by the Parliament; resigned in 1946

Name: Juho Kusti Paasikivi

Birth : 27 November 1870, Hämeenkoski

Death : . 14 December 1956, Helsinki

Elected: 1950

Took Office: 11 March 1946

Left Office: 1 March 1956

Party: National Coalition Party (KOK)

 > Prime Minister in 1918 and 1944–1946; elected President by the Parliament in 1946 and re-elected by electoral college in 1950

Name: Urho Kekkonen

Birth : 3 September 1900, Pielavesi

Death : 31 August 1986, Helsinki

Elected: 1956-1962-1968-1978

Took Office: 1 March 1956

Left Office: 27 January 1982

Party: Agrarian League (ML) /Centre Party (KESK)

 > Speaker of Parliament 1948–1950, Prime Minister 1950–1953 and 1954–1956, elected President by electoral college in 1956 and re-elected in 1962, 1968 and 1978; resigned in 1981 owing to poor health, whereupon Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto became acting President.

Name: Mauno Koivisto

Birth :  25 November 1923, Turku

Death : 

Elected: 1982-1988

Took Office: 27 January 1982

Left Office: 1 March 1994

Party: Social Democratic Party (SDP)

 > Prime Minister 1968–1970 and 1979–1982; elected President by electoral college in 1982 and re-elected in 1988. First president born in independent Finland. Only veteran president who served in the Defence Forces during the Second World War.

Name: Martti Ahtisaari

Birth : . 23 June 1937, Viipuri

Death : 

Elected: 1994

Took Office: 1 March 1994

Left Office: 1 March 2000

Party: Social Democratic Party (SDP)

 > Elected as President in 1994. First President elected by direct popular vote.

Name: Tarja Halonen

Birth : 24 December 1943, Helsinki

Death

Elected: 2000-2006

Took Office: 1 March 2000

Left Office: 1 March 2012

Party: Social Democratic Party (SDP)

 > Elected as the first female President of Finland in 2000; re-elected in 2006

Name: Sauli Niinistö

Birth : 24 August 1948, Salo

Death :

Elected: 2012

Took Office: 1 March 2012

Left Office: Elect

Party: National Coalition Party (KOK)

 > Speaker of Parliament 2007–2011; elected as President of Finland in 2012.