Evert Eloranta

Evert Eloranta
Born	Frans Evert Tuominen (1879-10-10)10 October 1879 Harjavalta, Grand Duchy of Finland
Died	1936 (56–57 years) Soviet Union
Nationality	Finnish
Occupation	Politician
Known for	Member of the Parliament, Commander-in-chief of the Red Guards

Frans Evert Eloranta (10 October 1879 – 1936) was a Finnish politician and a Member of the Parliament for the Social Democratic Party in 1908–1918. During the Finnish Civil War, Eloranta served as the Minister of Agriculture of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. In March 1918, he was elected the commander-in-chief of the Red Guards as a member of the triumvirate with Eino Rahja and Adolf Taimi. After the war, Eloranta fled to the Soviet Russia, where he allegedly died in 1936.^[1]