Tellervo Koivisto

Taimi Tellervo Koivisto ( Kankaanranta; born 2 January 1929) is a Finnish politician and the former First Lady of Finland from 1982 to 1994. Koivisto is the widow of the 9th President of Finland Mauno Koivisto and a former member of the Finnish parliament, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland.

Life Tellrvo was born to a farmer's family in the Western Finnish municipality Punkalaidun, in the Satakunta region. After finishing the primary school, Koivisto went to a high school in Huittinen, where she graduated in 1949. Koivisto entered the Turku School of Economics, and met her future husband in Turku in December 1950. She was married to Mauno Koivisto on 22 June 1952.

On 25 December 2020, Koivisto was hospitalized after falling at her home which resulted in her breaking her hip.

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Honours National honour Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Lamb

Foreign honours First Class of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry Member Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Polar Star

Literary works Elämän siivellä: Päiväkirjan lehtiä, Helsinki; Kirjayhtymä, 1970. Päiväkirjan uudet sivut, Helsinki; Otava, 1999.