Frans Vihtori Rantanen (14 February 1874 – 29 August 1921) was a Finnish construction worker and politician, born in

Kokemäki Kokemäki (; ) is a town and municipality in the Satakunta Region of Finland. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Finland is constitutionally bi-lingual with a Swedish speakin ...

. He was a member of the

Parliament of Finland The Parliament of Finland ( ; ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral and Parliamentary sovereignty, supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that ...

from 1907 to 1909 and from 1910 to 1918, representing the

Social Democratic Party of Finland The Social Democratic Party of Finland ( , SDP, nicknamed: ''demarit'' in Finnish; , SD) is a social democratic political party in Finland. It is the third-largest party in the Parliament of Finland with a total of 43 seats. Founded in 1899 as ...

(SDP). He kept a low profile during the

Finnish Civil War The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between Whites (Finland), White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Red Finland) during the country's transition fr ...

and tried to resume his duties as a Member of Parliament after the defeat of the Red side in May 1918, but was arrested, as the White authorities considered that the articles he had signed with a pseudonym in the press of his party during the Civil War constituted proof of his involvement on the Red side. In October 1918, he was given a suspended prison sentence of five years and resumed his liberty.

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