Oskari Tokoi
Finnish politician
Died when: 89 years 324 days (1078 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Antti Oskari Tokoi (15 April 1873 – 4 April 1963) was a Finnish socialist who served as a leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland.
In 1917 Tokoi acted as a Chairman of the Senate of Finland 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.
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