Ville Kiviniemi | |
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Member of the Parliament of Finland | |
In office 1 November 1917 – 25 September 1918 | |
Constituency | Lapland |
Personal details | |
Born | Kaukonen, Kittilä, Russian Empire | 17 March 1877
Died | 21 June 1951 Kittilä, Finland | (aged 74)
Political party | Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders |
Occupation | Farmer |
Vilhelm Kiviniemi (17 March 1877 – 21 June 1951) was a Finnish farmer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Lapland between November 1917 and September 1918.[1] He was amongst dozens of social democrat MPs who were persecuted for political reasons by the victorious Whites following end of the Finnish Civil War in 1918.[1] Kiviniemi was sentenced to death for treason but this was later commuted to life imprisonment.[2] He received a presidential pardon in 1922.