Person

Koivisto, Tellervo

1929

Taimi Tellervo Koivisto, née Kankaanranta (born 2 January 1929 in Punkalaidun in the Satakunta) is a Finnish politician and the former First Lady of Finland from 1982 to 1994. Koivisto is the widow of the 9th President of Finland Mauno Koivisto and a former member of the Finnish parliament, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland. She graduated from the Turku School of Economics in 1953 and worked as a teacher since 1954. In the late 1960s and the early 1970s Koivisto was active in the feminist organization Yhdistys 9 and worked as a columnist for the news magazine Suomen Kuvalehti 1968–1972. She became a member of the Finnish parliament in the 1972 election, but withdraw the parliament after one season and ran the City Council of Helsinki in 1976