STAHLBERG, KAARLO JUHO

kärˈlō yooˈhō stälˈbĕrg, 1865–1952, first president of independent Finland (1919–25). A professor of law (1908–18) at the Univ. of Helsinki, he was president of the Finnish diet at the start of World War I and an opponent of Russian oppression in Finland. After serving as president of Finland, he was narrowly defeated in the elections of 1931 and 1937.

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Area Handbook for Finland
Book by Theodore L. Stoddard, William K. Carr, Shaheen Dil, John Johnson, Carlo La Porta, Nils Ørvik, Douglas K. Ramsey, Kirk H. Stone, Carla Lofberg Valenta; U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974
Subjects: Finland
...1919 presidential elections, and the new president, Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, was supported by a more moderate bloc that would not...the Soviet Union. The Finnish minister to Moscow, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, was told by Soviet Premier Josef...
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European Political Systems
Book by Taylor Cole; Knopf, 1960
Subjects: Europe--Politics And Government
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Divided Government in Comparative Perspective
Book by Robert Elgie; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Comparative Government, Constitutional History, Divided Government
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Ploetz' Manual of Universal History
Book by William H. Tillinghast, Karl Julius Ploetz; Houghton Mifflin, 1925
Subjects: History--Outlines, Syllabi, Etc
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A History of Finland's Literature
Book by George C. Schoolfield; University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Subjects: Finnish Literature--History And Criticism
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Stahlberg, Kaarlo Juho
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STAHLBERG, KAARLO JUHO kar lo yoo ho stal berg, 1865 1952, first president of independent Finland (1919 25). A professor of law (1908 18) at the Univ...
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Finland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Pehr Ervind Svinhufvud (1918) and Mannerheim (1918 19), a republic was established and its first president, Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg , elected (1919). By the Treaty of Tartu in 1920, the USSR recognized Finlands independence. Agrarian and social...


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