"First Woman Ambassador" Tyyne Leivo-Larsson Hand Signed 4X6 Card For Sale

Up for sale the "First Woman Ambassador in Oslo" Tyyne Leivo-Larsson Hand Signed 4X6 Card.

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Tyyne

Lilja Leivo-Larsson (née Leivo; 3 March 1902 Uusikirkko

– 1 August 1977 Helsinki) was a Finnish Ambassador and MP. She was the first

Finnish woman to serve as Ambassador in Oslo from 1958 to 1966 and

as Envoy to Reykjavík in 1958–1964 (Ambassador 1964–1965) and the first

Nordic woman, who led the government when she served as Deputy Prime Minister

for Reino Kuuskoski in 1958. Leivo-Larsson was

Deputy Minister of Social Affairs and Social Affairs in 1948–1950 at the Fagerholm I, Törngren and Kekkonen V 1954–1956 and in 1958 in Kuuskoski

and Fagerholm II Governments as Social

Minister in 1954–1954 and 1956–1957. She was first elected to the Parliament from the Social Democratic Party in

1948–1958 and then as a member of the Social

Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders party for the years

1966–1970. During this time she was chairman of the Social

Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders Parliamentary Group.

She married Bror Nils Larsson in 1937.