Mimmi Kanervo

Mimmi Kanervo
Member of Parliament
In office 1907–1917
Constituency	North Turku
Personal details
Born	26 May 1870 Urjala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died	1 April 1922(1922-04-01) (aged 51) Helsinki, Finland
Political party	Social Democratic Party

Mimmi Kanervo (26 May 1870 – 1 April 1922) was a Finnish politician and trade unionist. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she was elected to Parliament in 1907 as one of the first group of female MPs, remaining in parliament until 1917.

Biography[]

Kanervo was born in Urjala in 1870.^[1] She worked as a servant in the countryside and Turku,^[1] before becoming secretary of the Finnish Domestic and Restaurant Workers' Union.^[2] She joined the Social Democratic Party and was a member of the Federal Committee of the party's Women's League. In 1905 she was a member of the committee that organised a general strike.^[1]

Kanervo contested the 1907 elections on the Social Democratic Party's list in North Turku and was one of 19 women elected to parliament. She was re-elected in 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913 and 1916, serving until April 1917.^[1] During her time in parliament she sat on the Banking, Customs and Finance committees.^[1]

In 1918 she was imprisoned for political reasons.^[1] After being released, she worked as a lecturer for the Social Democratic Party Women's League.^[1] She died in Helsinki in April 1922.^[1]

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