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Tauno Saukkonen

Finnish politician (1902-1965)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ47524731 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tauno Saukkonen (30 January 1902 – 23 September 1965) was a Finnish farmer and politician, born in Parikkala. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1939 to 1948, representing the Agrarian League. He was a presidential elector in the 1937, 1940 and 1943 presidential elections.

Editorial summary

“Tauno Saukkonen” enters the record as finnish politician (1902-1965). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tauno, Saukkonen and Finnish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902, 1965, 1939, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1902-01-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tauno, Saukkonen and Finnish.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Tauno Saukkonen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tauno, Saukkonen 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 Dec 4, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q47524731. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1902, 1965, 1939 and 1948.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tauno Saukkonen”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tauno Saukkonen primary sources, Tauno Saukkonen archive and Tauno research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tauno Saukkonen”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Tauno Saukkonen” 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.