Johan (Juho) Emil Sunila (16 August 1875 – 2 October 1936) was a

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

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in two cabinets. He was born in

Liminka Liminka ( sv, Limingo) is a municipality in the Northern Ostrobothnia region in Finland. Liminka is located about south of Oulu. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The n ...

. After

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had withdrawn from the

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in 1922, Sunila became, in addition to

Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio (; 10 April 1873 – 19 December 1940) was a Finnish politician of the Agrarian League who served as the fourth president of Finland from 1937–1940; his presidency included leading the country through the Winter War. He was t ...

, 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

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, he supported productive agrarianism, where the attention of politics was concentrated mainly on making agrarianism 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

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's cabinet. Sunila died in

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, aged 61.

Cabinets

Sunila I Cabinet Juho Sunila's first cabinet was the 15th government of Republic of Finland. Cabinet's time period was from December 17, 1927 to December 22, 1928. It was a minority government. References {{Cabinets of Finland Sunila, 1 1927 establis ...

Sunila II Cabinet Juho Sunila's second cabinet was the 19th government of Republic of Finland. Cabinet's time period was from March 21, 1931–December 14, 1932. It was majority government. {{Cabinets of Finland Sunila, 2 1931 establishments in Finla ...

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