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.