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Oskari Tokoi

1873 - 1963

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Antti Oskari Tokoi (15 April 1873 – 4 April 1963) was a Finnish socialist politician who served as a leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. Tokoi became Chairman of the Senate of Finland in 1917, and thus, he was the world's first social democratic leader of the government. During the short-lived Revolution of 1918, Tokoi participated as a leading figure in the revolutionary government. Tokoi later emigrated to the United States, where he served as the long-time editor of Raivaaja (The Pioneer), the newspaper of the Finnish Socialist Federation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oskari Tokoi is the 15,393rd most popular politician (down from 14,913th in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from Finland (down from 297th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Finnish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Oskari Tokoi ranks 15,393 out of 19,576Before him are Valérie Pécresse, Margarita Robles, Karim Massimov, Theo Waigel, Richard Olney, and Bülent Arınç. After him are Tillman Thomas, Jacques Poos, Dmitry Rogozin, Óscar Osorio, Puzur-Ashur I, and Juan Idiarte Borda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Oskari Tokoi ranks 171Before him are Julieta Lanteri, Dimitri Arakishvili, Lucien Mérignac, A. K. Fazlul Huq, Dimitrios Maximos, and Harry Spanjer. After him are Betty Nansen, William D. Coolidge, Luise Fleck, Guillaume Grandidier, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, and Charles Schlee. Among people deceased in 1963, Oskari Tokoi ranks 173Before him are Al St. John, József Turay, Fernando Altimani, Robert Kerr, Suzanne Duchamp, and August Jakobson. After him are Otto Fickeisen, Sonny Clark, Jack Carson, Franco Comotti, Kay Sage, and María Guadalupe García Zavala.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Oskari Tokoi ranks 334 out of 751Before him are Eevi Huttunen (1922), Erkki Kataja (1924), Pauli Nevala (1940), Hermanni Pihlajamäki (1903), Kjell Westö (1961), and Jorma Ollila (1950). After him are Matti Sippala (1908), Eino Purje (1900), Emppu Vuorinen (1978), Arvo Ylppö (1887), Kirka (1950), and Eeles Landström (1932).

Among POLITICIANS In Finland

Among politicians born in Finland, Oskari Tokoi ranks 73Before him are Rainer von Fieandt (1890), Urho Castrén (1886), Kullervo Manner (1880), Elisabeth Rehn (1935), Sakari Tuomioja (1911), and Eevi Huttunen (1922). After him are Paavo Väyrynen (1946), Claes Andersson (1937), Anna-Maja Henriksson (1964), Miina Sillanpää (1866), Eeva Ruoppa (1932), and Lucina Hagman (1863).