Maria Paaso

Maria Sofia Paaso-Laine (13 November 1868 – 5 May 1945) was a Finnish politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she was elected to Parliament in 1907 as one of the first group of female MPs. She remained an MP until the following year.

Biography Paaso-Laine was born in Ii in 1868. She attended industrial school and worked as a maid and seamstress in Helsinki. Between 1900 and 1902 she was secretary of the Social Democratic Women's League.

During the Finnish Civil War she was a member of the Red Food Command. Following the war she was briefly imprisoned at Hämeenlinna prison camp. She later ran a paper shop in Helsinki, where she died in 1945.