Felix Teodor Hamrin was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the liberal

Liberalism

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 Freeminded People's Party and served as Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Sweden

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 of Sweden

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 from 6 August to 24 September 1932.

Hamrin was born in Mönsterås

Mönsterås

Mönsterås is a locality and the seat of Mönsterås Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 4,744 inhabitants in 2005.Mönsterås is associated with the Swedish poet Carl Boberg, particularly his 1885 writing of the lyrics for the eminent hymn "O Store Gud" .- References :...

 in Kalmar County

Kalmar County

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. His father was a dealer in leather. He married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Pennycock in 1900. They had seven children.

After studying at a business school in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

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, he ran a wholesaling business in Jönköping

Jönköping

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 from 1903 to 1930. He entered the Riksdag

Parliament of Sweden

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 at the young age of 37, and under Carl Gustaf Ekman

Carl Gustaf Ekman

Carl Gustaf Ekman was a Swedish politician, Member of Parliament 1911-1932 , leader of the Freeminded People's Party 1924-1932 and Prime Minister from 1926 to 1928 and again from 1930 to 1932....

 he served as Minister of Trade from 1926 to 1928 and as Minister of Finance from 1930 to 1932. When Ekman was forced to resign shortly before the elections in 1932 due to the Kreuger crash, Hamrin became prime minister

Prime minister

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. He resigned after the election because the Freeminded People's Party had suffered serious losses in the election. His term of office was only 50 days, giving him the record for serving the shortest amount of time as prime minister of Sweden.

He served briefly as party leader for the Freeminded People's Party after Ekman, and in the newly formed People's Party

Liberal People's Party (Sweden)

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 until a new party leader was chosen in January 1935. He also served as the governor of Jönköping County

Jönköping County

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 from 1930 to 1937. His most important political tasks were to fight the economic effects of the early years of the Depression

Great Depression

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 in Sweden through severe economy measures, and to mitigate the effects of the Kreuger crash.

He died in Jönköping on 27 November 1937.