Väinö Gabriel Kivilinna (13 October 1875,

Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...

- 18 March 1950; surname until 1906 ''Borg'') was a Finnish secondary school teacher,

temperance movement The temperance movement is a social movement promoting Temperance (virtue), temperance or total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism, and ...

activist and politician. He was a member of the

Parliament of Finland The Parliament of Finland ( ; ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral and Parliamentary sovereignty, supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that ...

, representing the

Finnish Party The Finnish Party () 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 of the Finnish langu ...

from 1907 to 1909 and the Agrarian League from 1922 to 1924.

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1875 births 1950 deaths People from Turku People from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish Party politicians Centre Party (Finland) politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1907–1908) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1908–1909) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1922–1924) University of Helsinki alumni Finnish temperance activists {{CentrePartyFinland-politician-stub