Isak Penttala

Isak Penttala (8 February 188328 February 1955) was a Finnish newspaper editor, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Vaasa Province South between March 1927 and July 1951. Prior to being elected, he was imprisoned for political reasons during and following the Finnish Civil War. He was the son of crofter Juho Penttala and Maria Holkko.

Politics Penttala was the secretary of the Vaasa Province South branch of the SDP from 1916 to 1917. Eventually, after he was produced before the courts, he was released by the state criminal court in Vaasa on 28 November 1918. Following his release, he served as editor of several SDP newspapers: Työläinen (Vaasa, 1919), Kansan Lehti (Tampere, 1920), Raivaaja (Vaasa, 1921, 1924–1926), Vapaus (Mikkeli, 1924) and Pohjanmaan Kansa (Vaasa, 1931). He was re-elected at the 1927, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1936, 1939, 1945, and 1948 parliamentary elections. He was a presidential elector at the 1931, 1937, 1940 and 1943 presidential elections. He was a member of the municipal councils in Isokyrö and Seinäjoki.

Penttala died on 28 February 1955 in Seinäjoki.

Personal life Penttala married Sanna Matilda Heikkilä in 1918.