Juho Kusti Paasikivi

Juho Kusti Paasikivi
Paasikivi in 1945
7th President of Finland
In office 11 March 1946 – 1 March 1956
Prime Minister	Mauno Pekkala Karl-August Fagerholm Urho Kekkonen Sakari Tuomioja Ralf Törngren
Preceded by	C. G. E. Mannerheim
Succeeded by	Urho Kekkonen
Prime Minister of Finland
In office 17 November 1944 – 9 March 1946
President	Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Preceded by	Urho Castrén
Succeeded by	Mauno Pekkala
In office 27 May 1918 – 27 November 1918
Preceded by	Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Succeeded by	Lauri Ingman
Chairman of the Senate of Finland
In office 27 May 1918 – 27 November 1918
Preceded by	Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Personal details
Born	Johan Gustaf Hellsten (1870-11-27)27 November 1870 Koski Hl, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died	14 December 1956(1956-12-14) (aged 86) Helsinki, Finland
Resting place	Hietaniemi Cemetery
Political party	Finnish Party (1906–1918) National Coalition Party (from 1918)
Spouse(s)	Anna Matilda Forsman [fi] (desc.) Allina (Alli) Valve
Children	4
Alma mater	Imperial Alexander University (now University of Helsinki)
Profession	statesman, professor, attorney
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Juho Kusti Paasikivi^[a] (27 November 1870 – 14 December 1956) was a Finnish politician who served as the seventh president of Finland from 1946 to 1956. Representing the Finnish Party until its dissolution in 1918 and then the National Coalition Party, he previously served as senator, member of parliament (1907–1909, 1910–1914),^[1] envoy to Stockholm (1936–1939) and Moscow (1940–1941), and Prime Minister of Finland (1918 and 1944–1946).^[2] He also held several other positions of trust, and was an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years.

Paasikivi is remembered as a main architect of Finland's foreign policy after the Second World War;^[3] for example, the Paasikivi Society (Paasikivi-seura), founded in 1958 under the leadership of Jan-Magnus Jansson, sought to nurture Paasikivi's political legacy, especially during the Cold War, by promoting 'fact-based foreign policy thinking' in Finland and making Finland's policy of neutrality internationally known.^[4]

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