Tellervo Koivisto

Tellervo Koivisto
Tellervo Koivisto in 2017.
Spouse of the President of Finland
In role
27 January 1982 – 1 March 1994
PresidentMauno Koivisto
Preceded bySylvi Kekkonen
Succeeded byEeva Ahtisaari
Personal details
Born (1929-01-02) 2 January 1929 (age 95)
Punkalaidun, Finland
Spouse
(m. 1952; died 2017)
Alma materTurku School of Economics (1953)
OccupationBachelor of Economics

Taimi Tellervo Koivisto (née Kankaanranta; born 2 January 1929)[1] is a Finnish politician and the former First Lady of Finland from 1982 to 1994. Koivisto is the widow of the 9th President of Finland Mauno Koivisto and a former member of the Finnish parliament, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland.[2]

  1. ^ Iso-Iivari, Lasse (22 December 2013). "Kankaanranta" (in Finnish). University of Turku. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. ^ Korppi-Tommola, Aura (23 June 2006). "Koivisto, Tellervo (1929–)" (in Finnish). National Biography of Finland. Retrieved 31 March 2016.