Juhan Kurvits (1895–1939) was an Estonian politician. Kurvits was born on 13 January 1895. He was elected to the

Estonian Provincial Assembly The Estonian Provincial Assembly ( et, Eestimaa Kubermangu Ajutine Maanõukogu, (Ajutine) Maanõukogu, Eesti Maanõukogu, (Eesti) Maapäev) was elected after the February Revolution in 1917 as the national diet of the Autonomous Governorate of E ...

, which governed the

Autonomous Governorate of Estonia In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy, from , ''autonomos'', from αὐτο- ''auto-'' "self" and νόμος ''nomos'', "law", hence when combined understood to mean "one who gives oneself one's ow ...

between 1917 and 1919; he served the full term. He did not sit in the newly formed

Republic of Estonia A republic () is a "state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy" and also a "government, or system of government, of such a state." Previously, especially in the 17th and 18th c ...

's Asutav Kogu (Constituent Assembly) or its Riigikogu (Parliament). He died in 1939 in Chicago in the United States.Jaan Toomla,
Valitud ja Valitsenud: Eesti parlamentaarsete ja muude esinduskogude ning valitsuste isikkoosseis aastail 1917–1999
' ( National Library of Estonia, 1999), pp. 23, 281."Eestimaa Kubermangu Ajutine Maanõukogu Liikmed"
''National Library of Estonia''. Retrieved 27 February 2019.

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1895 births 1939 deaths Members of the Estonian Provincial Assembly University of Tartu alumni Estonian emigrants to the United States Estonian World War II refugees People from Mulgi Parish {{Estonia-politician-stub