Daniel (Taneli) Nykänen (15 September 1845, in

Pieksämäki Pieksämäki () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southern Savonia region, about north of Mikkeli, east of Jyväskylä and south of Kuopio. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The ...

– 8 November 1927) was a

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farmer and politician. He was a member of the

Diet of Finland The Diet of Finland (Finnish ''Suomen maapäivät'', later ''valtiopäivät''; Swedish ''Finlands Lantdagar''), was the legislative assembly of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1809 to 1906 and the recipient of the powers of the Swedish Riksda ...

in 1888, from 1897 to 1900 and from 1904 to 1906 and of the

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from 1907 to 1909, representing the

Finnish Party The Finnish Party ( fi, Suomalainen Puolue) was a Fennoman conservative political party in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and independent Finland. Born out of Finland's language strife in the 1860s, the party sought to improve the position ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nykanen, Taneli 1845 births 1927 deaths People from Pieksämäki People from Mikkeli Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish Lutherans Finnish Party politicians Members of the Diet of Finland Members of the Parliament of Finland (1907–1908) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1908–1909)