Uno Anton (4 April 1942 in

Suislepa Suislepa is a village in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia. Until the 2017 administrative reform of Estonian municipalities the village was located in Tarvastu Parish.The population as of 2014 was 305 people. It is 42 km (26 miles) so ...

– 19 April 2012) was an Estonian politician and a voter for the

Estonian restoration of Independence Estonian Restoration of Independence, legally defined as the Restoration of the Republic of Estonia, was proclaimed on 20 August 1991. On that day at 23:02 local time, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Estonia, in agreement with the E ...

. He was born in Suislepa as the fifth child of six. His father died early and his mother raised their children alone. He studied at Suislepa Primary School and

Mustla Mustla is a small borough (') in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 818. 1938–1979 Mustla was a town with town privileges. In June 2018, a plaque commemorating Alfons Rebane was ...

Secondary School. After graduating from

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School, he worked as an excavator and at the same time studied in high school. From 1961 to 1963, he worked as an excavator at

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EPT. From 1963 to 1966, he was in the

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. From 1966 to 1971, he studied

agronomy Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...

at the

Estonian University of Life Sciences The Estonian University of Life Sciences ( Estonian: ''Eesti Maaülikool'', EMÜ) is a public university located in Tartu, Estonia. Its roots trace back to 1802 when the Chair of Agriculture was founded in the University of Tartu. EMÜ is the fo ...

. From 1971 to 1972, he worked as a head of the department at the Vambola collective farm near Soe, while in 1972–73 he was in the

Tarvastu Tarvastu () is a village in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia. It's located about a kilometer east of Mustla. Tarvastu has a population of 99 (as of 2006). The village is passed by the Tarvastu River and the Viljandi–Rõngu road (no. 52 ...

collective farm. In 1973, he was appointed as the head of agronomy at

Kärstna Kärstna is a village in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia. Until the 2017 administrative reform of Estonian municipalities the village was located in Tarvastu Parish. Kärstna manor Kärstna () manor traces its history back to 1678, wh ...

collective farm, and from 1976 to 1981, he was chairman of Kärstna collective farm. From 1981 to 1990, he worked as the chairman of the Tarvastu collective farm. Anton was a member of the Estonian Supreme Soviet from

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to 1992, as part of an initiative from

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, along with

Ülle Aaskivi Ülle Aaskivi (née Kiin; 5 December 1950 – 17 January 2007) was an Estonian lawyer, politician, and public official. Aaskivi was elected a member of the Estonian Supreme Soviet in 1990 and the Estonian Constitutional Assembly, as well as one ...

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, and Jüri Rätsep. His candidature was presented by the

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Department of Labor of the

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collective farm and received 7935 votes. He was a member of the Rural Affairs Committee and the Independent Democrat Group. He voted on August 20, 1991 as one of the 69 members of the Supreme Council for restoration of the independence of the Republic of Estonia. At the end of the parliamentary mandate, he began working in Tarvastu Forest District in 1992, where he retired in 2000. Anton was a member of the Tarvastu Village Council and from 1993 to 1996, as well as being the municipality councilor. He was a candidate in the

Independence Association and received 136 votes.

Awards

* 5th Class of the Estonian Order of the National Coat of Arms (received 10 October 2002) * 3rd Class of the Estonian Order of the National Coat of Arms (received 6 February 2006)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anton, Uno 1942 births 2012 deaths People from Viljandi Parish Politicians from Viljandi County Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 3rd Class Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 5th Class Voters of the Estonian restoration of Independence Estonian University of Life Sciences alumni 20th-century Estonian politicians