Johan Emil Sunila (August 16, 1875 in Liminka

Liminka

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 – October 2, 1936 in Helsinki

Helsinki

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) was a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 politician from the Agrarian League, the managing director of the agrarian finance board, and Prime Minister of Finland

Prime Minister of Finland

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 in two cabinets .

After Santeri Alkio

Santeri Alkio

Santeri Alkio was a Finnish politician, author and journalist. He is also considered to be the ideological father of Finnish Centre Party.-History:...

 had withdrawn from the Parliament of Finland

Parliament of Finland

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 in 1922, Sunila became, in addition to Kyösti Kallio

Kyösti Kallio

Kyösti Kallio was the fourth President of Finland . He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and served as Prime Minister four times and Speaker of the Parliament six times.-Early life:...

, the second of the Agrarian Party's strong members in the 1920s. Supported by the agrarian-background governor of the province of Viipuri and the President of Finland

President of Finland

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 Lauri Kristian Relander

Lauri Kristian Relander

Lauri Kristian Relander was the second President of Finland . A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a member of Parliament, and as Speaker, before his election as President....

, he supported productive agrariarism, where the attention of politics was concentrated mainly on making agrariarism more effective instead of widespread improvement of the countryside.

Sunila's first cabinet lasted from December 1927 to December 1928 and his second cabinet lasted from March 1931 to December 1932. Before this, Sunila had served as Minister of Agriculture in two of Kyösti Kallio's cabinets and Antti Tulenheimo

Antti Tulenheimo

Antti Agathon Tulenheimo was a Finnish politician from the National Coalition Party who served as Prime Minister of Finland in 1925.-References:...

's cabinet .