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Vilho Turunen

Finnish politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ11901458 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vilho Turunen (16 December 1923, Polvijärvi - 8 February 1973) was a Finnish agricultural worker, logger, trade union functionary and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1958 to 1962. Turunen was at first a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) and later of the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders (TPSL).

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1973, 1958, 1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-12-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vilho, Turunen and Finnish.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Vilho Turunen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vilho, Turunen 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 Jun 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11901458. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1923, 1973, 1958 and 1962.

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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Vilho Turunen”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Vilho Turunen primary sources, Vilho Turunen archive and Vilho 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

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  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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This entry incorporates text from “Vilho Turunen” 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.