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| Predecessor | Benito Zapata |
| Successor | Jorje Rosadilla |
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Ambassador to Maudland | |
| Counterpart | Svein Larsson |
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58th Antarctic Tuzelmann Award Laureate | |
| Predecessor | Custodia de Merlo |
| Successor | Donald Goat |
| Born | 29th January, 1922 Esperanza, Santiago
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| Died | June 3rd, 1969 San Martín, Santiago
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| Spouse | Laura Tulenheimo |
| Political Party | Santiago Party |
| Profession | Diplomat |
Pekka Tulenheimo was the 8th President of Santiago from 1962 until 1969. He was the first ethnic Finnish President; the first Protestant President; and the first President from the Santigao Party.
Biography[]
Early Life and Career[]
Tulenheimo was born in 1922 to Finnish immigrants in Esperanza, in the State of Bahía, where most Finnish-Santiaganos lived. In 1940 (allegedly to avoid Conscription into the Bellinsgauzenia War), he first attended the University of San Martín, where he learned Politics. In 1945, he began working as an aide and translator for Santiago's Finnish Ambassador, and worked his way up. In 1962, he became the Santiagano Ambassador to Maudland (though it was only a semi-Autonomous Norwegian territory at the time; most of Antarctica's nations still sent Ambassadors to Maudland), which was a fairly high-profile position due the close relationship between the two countries.
Presidency[]
In 1966, Tulenheimo left the Embassy, and announced his intentions to run for President for the Santiago Party. His bid was criticized by many, for two principal reasons: firstly, Tulenheimo was 44 years old at the time, which would make him the country's youngest President to date (though former Presidents Bodega and Juárez had not been much older when taking office); and secondly, the Santiago Party was accused of nominating him purely because he was Finnish and Lutheran, to prove that they were not purely pro-Hispanic and pro-Catholic.
Despite this, Tulenheimo was elected on a promise to 'crack down on Organized Crime', which had become a major problem for the country since the 1950s. He tried hard to keep this promise, and rerouted government spending to focus on the Police and the Judicial System. He also tripled the funding to Santiago's small "Departamento de Inteligencia Nacional" (Department of National Intelligence), the highest law-enforcement agency in the country (similar to the United States' FBI); and worked closely with its Director, Emmanuel Peláez towards the eradication of the crime syndicates.
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