Governments and ministers since 1917
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Urho Kekkonen
Personal details
Date and place of birth: 3.9.1900 Pielavesi
Days in office 3640
Ministerial duties
- Kekkonen V - Prime Minister 20.10.1954 - 15.2.1956 (Agrarian Union)
- Törngren - Minister for Foreign Affairs 5.5.1954 - 20.10.1954 (Agrarian Union)
- Kekkonen IV - Prime Minister 9.7.1953 - 17.11.1953 (Agrarian Union)
- Kekkonen III - Minister for Foreign Affairs 26.11.1952 - 9.7.1953 (Agrarian Union)
- Kekkonen III - Minister of Justice 20.9.1951 - 22.9.1951 (Agrarian Union)
- Kekkonen III - Prime Minister 20.9.1951 - 9.7.1953 (Agrarian Union)
- Kekkonen II - Prime Minister 17.1.1951 - 20.9.1951 (Agrarian Union)
- Kekkonen - Minister of the Interior 17.3.1950 - 17.1.1951 (Agrarian Union)
- Kekkonen - Prime Minister 17.3.1950 - 17.1.1951 (Agrarian Union)
- Paasikivi III - Minister of Justice 17.4.1945 - 26.3.1946 (Agrarian Union)
- Paasikivi II - Minister of Justice 17.11.1944 - 17.4.1945 (Agrarian Union)
- Cajander III - Minister of the Interior 12.3.1937 - 1.12.1939 (Agrarian Union)
- Kallio IV - Deputy Minister of the Interior 9.10.1936 - 12.3.1937 (Agrarian Union)
- Kallio IV - Minister of Justice 7.10.1936 - 12.3.1937 (Agrarian Union)