Agda Östlund

Agda Östlund (3 April 1870-1942), was a Swedish seamstress and Politician of the Social Democrats. She belonged to the first women to have been elected to the Swedish parliament.

Agda Östlund was born in a working class home in Köping. She supported herself as a seamstress in Stockholm, where she eventually founded her own studio with several employees. Östlund was active in the Stockholms allmänna kvinnoklubb (The Stockholm Public Women's Society) from 1903, where she became chairman. She was also active within Social Democratic Women in Sweden, where she served as chairman in in its executive committee in 1911-1917. In 1921, she became one of the five first women to be elected to the Swedish Parliament after women suffrage alongside Nelly Thüring (Social Democrat), Bertha Wellin (Conservative) and Elisabeth Tamm (liberal) in the Lower chamber, and Kerstin Hesselgren in the Upper chamber. Östlund remained in the Parliament until 1940.

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