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Kalle Kankari
Kalle Kankari
Member of the Parliament of Finland
	In office; 5 September 1922 – 17 October 1923
Constituency	Uusimaa
Personal details
Born	Kaarle August Kankari; 28 January 1889; Paimio, Russian Empire
Died	5 June 1948 (aged 59); Turku, Finland
Political party	Socialist Workers' Party

Kaarle August Kankari (28 January 1889 – 5 June 1948) was a Finnish trade unionist, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature. A member of the Socialist Workers' Party, he represented Uusimaa between September 1922 and October 1923.^[1]

Kankari was born on 28 January 1889 in Paimio.^[1] He was a carpenter in Uskela and Helsinki.^[1] He was chairman of the Finnish Woodworkers Union (Suomen Puutyöntekijäin Liitto) from 1917 to 1918 and from 1919 to 1921.^[1] Kankari was imprisoned for political reasons following the end of the Finnish Civil War in 1918.^[1] He was released in 1919.^[1] He was a Finnish Trade Union Federation official from 1921 to 1922 and chairman of the Finnish Sawmill, Transport and Mixed Workers Union (Suomen Saha-, Kuljetus- ja Sekatyöväen Liitto) from 1922 to 1924.^[1]

Kankari was imprisoned again in August 1923 and a third time in the early 1930s.^[1] He was a Finnish Paper Association (Suomen Paperiliitto) official from 1929 to 1930.^[1] He was a carpenter in Turku until his death on 5 June 1948.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Kansanedustajat: Kalle Kankari" [Members of Parliament: Kalle Kankari] (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Parliament of Finland. Archived from the original on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2023.