Oskari Tokoi
Oskari Tokoi | |
|---|---|
| Chairman of the Senate of Finland | |
| In office March 26, 1917 – September 8, 1917 | |
| Preceded by | Mihail Borovitinov |
| Succeeded by | Eemil Nestor Setälä |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 15, 1873 Kannus, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire |
| Died | April 4, 1963 (aged 89) Leominster, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
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.