Johannes Klesment (also Johannes Kleesment; 30 May 1896 Keila Parish (now

Keila Keila () is a town and an Municipalities of Estonia, urban municipality in Harju County in north-western Estonia, southwest of Tallinn. As of 2021, the town has a population of 10,499 inhabitants. Keila is also the location of administrative b ...

Kreis Harrien Harrien County ( or , , ) was one of the four counties of the Governorate of Estonia. It was situated in the central part of the governorate (in present-day northern Estonia). Its capital was ''Reval'' (Tallinn), which was the capital of the gov ...

– 23 December 1967

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) was an

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n politician. He was a member of the

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and fourth legislatures of the Estonian Parliament, representing the

Estonian Socialist Workers' Party The Estonian Socialist Workers' Party (, ''ESTP'') was a political party in Estonia. History The party was established in 1925 as a merger of the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party and former members of the Independent Socialist Workers ...

. Klesment served as

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in the

Estonian government-in-exile The Estonian government-in-exile was the formally declared governmental authority of the Republic of Estonia in exile, existing from 1944 until the reestablishment of Estonian sovereignty over Estonian territory in 1991. It traced its legitimac ...

from 1945 to 1953. In the 1950s, Klesment also served as the editor of ''The Baltic Review'', a journal published in New York by the Committees for a Free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from 1953 to 1971.

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1896 births 1967 deaths People from Keila Politicians from Harju County People from Kreis Harrien Estonian Socialist Workers' Party politicians Members of the Riigikogu, 1926–1929 Members of the Riigikogu, 1929–1932 20th-century Estonian lawyers University of Tartu alumni Recipients of the Cross of Liberty (Estonia) Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to the United States {{Estonia-1929-Riigikogu-politician-stub