Maria Raunio
{{Short description|Finnish educator and politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Maria Raunio
| image = File:Kansanedustaja Maria Raunio (musketti.M012-HK10002-128).jpg
| office1 = Member of Parliament
| term1 = 1907–1910
| constituency1 = East Vaasa
| party = Social Democratic Party
| birth_date = 26 May 1872
| birth_place = Keuruu, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1911|9|3|1872|5|26|df=y}}
| death_place = Astoria, United States
}}
Maria Raunio (26 May 1872 – 3 September 1911) was a Finnish educator and 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 1910.
Biography
Raunio was born in Keuruu in 1872.[https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911342.aspx Maria Raunio] Parliament of Finland She worked as a seamstress in Keuruu and Tampere, before joining the office of the Kansan Lehti newspaper. She had seven children.[http://www.helsinki.fi/sukupuolentutkimus/aanioikeus/en/articles/first.htm The first women Members of Parliament in Finland, 1907-1908] University of Helsinki
Raunio contested the 1907 elections on the Social Democratic Party's list in East Vaasa and was one of 19 women elected to parliament. She was re-elected in 1908 and 1909. However, she lost her seat in the 1910 elections after being removed from the party's lists due to differences with party officials. During her time in parliament she sat on the Audit Committee, the Education Committee, the Grand Committee and the Pensions Committee.
After leaving parliament, she moved to the United States, where she was an activist for workers' rights before committing suicide aged 39 in 1911.
File:Akseli Gallen-Kallela Tyttö Keuruun vanhassa kirkossa.jpg by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1889, where Raunio acted as the model{{cite book |last1=Pohjolainen |first1=Raija |title=Tyttö Keuruun vanhassa kirkossa |date=2016 |publisher=Kellastupa |isbn=9789525787238 |url=https://www.kirjasampo.fi/fi/kulsa/http%253A%252F%252Fdata.kirjasampo.fi%252FabstractWork_4382621}}]]
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Category:People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Category:Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians
Category:Members of the Parliament of Finland (1907–1908)
Category:Members of the Parliament of Finland (1908–1909)
Category:Members of the Parliament of Finland (1909–1910)
Category:Women members of the Parliament of Finland
Category:Finnish expatriates in the United States