Tuure Olavi Hermanni Salo (7 February 1921 – 19 April 2006) was a

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lawyer, bank director and politician, born in

Rovaniemi Rovaniemi ( , ; sme, Roavvenjárga ; smn, Ruávinjargâ; sms, Ruäʹvnjargg) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland, and its southern part Per� ...

. He was a member of the

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from 1962 to 1970, representing the People's Party of Finland until 1965 and the Liberal People's Party (LKP) after that. He served as Minister of Justive and Deputy Minister of the Interior from 15 May 1977 to 2 March 1978. Salo was the mayor of Rovaniemi from 1963 to 1984. He was a presidential elector in the 1968 Finnish presidential election.

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