Ville Kiviniemi
Ville Kiviniemi | |
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Kiviniemi in 1918 | |
| Member of the Parliament of Finland | |
| In office 1 November 1917 – 25 September 1918 | |
| Constituency | Lapland |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 March 1877 Kaukonen, Kittilä, Russian Empire |
| Died | 21 June 1951 (aged 74) Kittilä, Finland |
| Political party | Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders |
| Occupation | Farmer |
Vilhelm Kiviniemi (17 March 1877 – 21 June 1951) was a Finnish farmer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Lapland between November 1917 and September 1918. He was amongst dozens of social democrat MPs who were persecuted for political reasons by the victorious Whites following end of the Finnish Civil War in 1918. Kiviniemi was sentenced to death for treason but this was later commuted to life imprisonment. He received a presidential pardon in 1922.