Senate of Finland
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The Senate of Finland combined the functions of cabinet and supreme court in the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1816 to 1917 and in independent Finland from 1917 to 1918.
The Senate building at the Senate Square in central Helsinki
The coat of arms of the Imperial Finnish Senate.
Count Carl Erik Mannerheim (1759–1837), technically the first "Prime Minister of Finland", has later also become known as great grandfather of Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (President of Finland 1944–1946).
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
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Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad served as the president of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Before 1917, as a lawyer, judge, and politician in the Grand Duchy of Finland, Svinhufvud played a major role in
Svinhufvud in 1920
The Finnish Senate of 1917, Svinhufvud in the head of table.
J. K. Paasikivi (left) and Svinhufvud discuss the Finnish monarchy project in 1918
Svinhufvud postage stamp from 1931.