Martti Miettunen
Template:Short description Template:Infobox officeholder Martti Juhani Miettunen (17 April 1907 – 19 January 2002) was a Finnish politician who served twice as Finland's prime minister, from 1961 to 1962 and again from 1975 to 1977.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref>
Miettunen was born in Simo, the son of a smallholder. He studied agriculture, and worked as a farmer and an agricultural advisor before entering politics.<ref name="eduskunta">Martti Miettunen at the Parliament of Finland Template:Webarchive</ref> He served in Parliament as a representative for the Agrarian Party from 1945 to 1958, and then served as Governor of the Province of Lapland from 1958 to 1973. He was awarded the honorary title of Counsellor of State in 1977.<ref name="eduskunta"/>
Miettunen served as a cabinet minister for 4,300 days, the eighth-longest period of service in Finnish political history. He was also known as President Urho Kekkonen's right-hand man.
He died at the age of 94 in the Kauniainen military hospital near Helsinki in early 2002.<ref name="eduskunta"/>
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- 1907 births
- 2002 deaths
- People from Simo, Finland
- Politicians from Oulu Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
- Finnish Lutherans
- Centre Party (Finland) politicians
- Prime ministers of Finland
- Ministers of transport and public works of Finland
- Ministers of agriculture of Finland
- Ministers of finance of Finland
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (1945–1948)
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (1948–1951)
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (1951–1954)
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (1954–1958)
- 20th-century Lutherans
- Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples