Kallio is the only Finnish president to have died in office — collapsing at Helsinki Railway Station in December 1940, minutes after boarding a train, having just delivered a farewell radio address. He had begged Risto Ryti to relieve him of the presidency, his health broken by the strain of the Winter War and the humiliation of signing the Moscow Peace Treaty, which he reportedly cursed aloud at the ceremony.
Kallio is the only Finnish president to have died in office — collapsing at Helsinki Railway Station in December 1940, minutes after boarding a train, having just delivered a farewell radio address. He had begged Risto Ryti to relieve him of the presidency, his health broken by the strain of the Winter War and the humiliation of signing the Moscow Peace Treaty, which he reportedly cursed aloud at the ceremony.