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Armas Paasonen

Finnish politician

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ17382759 ↗
Source-derived summary

Armas Johannes Paasonen (29 August 1885, Viipuri – 15 November 1950) was a Finnish railwayman and politician.

Paasonen was a Member of the Parliament of Finland from 1911 to 1918, from 1924 to 1929, from 1930 to 1933 and again from 1936 to 1945, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP).

He was imprisoned from 1918 to 1919 for having sided with the Reds during the Finnish Civil War.

Editorial summary

“Armas Paasonen” enters the record as finnish politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Armas, Paasonen and Finnish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1885, 1950, 1911, 1918—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1885-08-29. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Armas, Paasonen and Finnish.
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Why this record matters

“Armas Paasonen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Armas, Paasonen and Finnish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17382759. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1885, 1950, 1911 and 1918.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Armas Paasonen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.