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Pehr Evind Svinhufvud was a Finnish lawyer and politician who served as the first President of Finland from 1919 to 1925 and again from 1931 to 1937. Svinhufvud was born in Turku, Finland, on 15 September 1861. He studied law at the University of Helsinki and was admitted to the bar in 1887. Svinhufvud practiced law in Turku until 1903, when he was elected to the Finnish Parliament.
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