Career
He represented the Young Finnish Party until 1918 and the National Coalition Party from 1918 to 1919. Nikolay Bobrikov"s government exiled him to Sweden during the first wave of Russification in 1903. He was allowed to return in 1905.
He was also a president of the Economic Society of the Oulu Province (predecessor of the ProAgria Oulu Maaseutukeskus ry).