Risto Heikki Ryti

Risto Ryti

1919 - 1924, 1927 - 1929 Member of Parliament
During his first few years in Parliament, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and later the Finance Committee.
1921 - Finance minister
1923 - Governor of the Bank of Finland
1924 - 1927 - Member of Helsinki City Council from .
1939 -  Prime minister
1940-1944 - President
1944 - Governor of the Bank of Finland
1945-1949 Prison
After the Continuation War with the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union demanded that the Finnish government be arrested, tried and imprisoned for waging war.

He was a sixth cousin of great-grandfather Frank Kaskinen.

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