during Finnish presidential election, 1946 the parliament passed a law that enabled what  Finnish military leader and statesman born in 1867 to serve a six-year term
Finnish presidential election, 1946 Indirect presidential elections were held in Finland in 1946. In 1944 the Parliament had passed a law that enabled Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to serve a six-year term. However, he resigned on 4 March 1946, giving as his reason his declining health and his view that the tasks he had been selected to carry out had been accomplished. An election was held in Parliament to appoint his successor. Juho Kusti Paasikivi was elected with 159 of the 200 votes.
Kalle Suosalo Karl (Kalle) Aleksander Suosalo (9 February 1869, in Messukylä - 2 March 1918, in Jakobstad; original surname "Johansson") was a Finnish baker and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from April to October 1917, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). When the Finnish Civil War broke out on 27 January 1918, Suosalo was living in Jakobstad, where the White side established control in the first days of the war. Suosalo had not taken part in any actual hostilities, but he was arrested on 15 February as a supporter of the Red side. He was sentenced to death in a drumhead court-martial and shot in Jakobstad on 2 March 1918 together with six other men, accused of having taken part in an alleged plot to blow up the Jabobstad Artillery School. Kalle Suosalo was the father of MP Vilho Suosalo.