Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1950, the first time the public had been involved in a presidential election since 1937 as three non-popular elections had taken place in 1940,
J.K. Paasikivi 1945 portrait
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen
The inauguration of the Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi in his second presidency at the Parliament House in Helsinki on March 1, 1950.
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
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Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg was a Finnish jurist and academic who was one of the most important pioneers of republicanism in the country. He was the first president of Finland and a liberal nationalist.
Ståhlberg in 1919
Young Kaarlo in the 1880s
K. J. Ståhlberg on a 50 mark note from 1963.
President Ståhlberg in his office in 1919.