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Linda Marie Eenpalu (bornLinda Marie Koplus, until 1935 namedEinbund; 20 September 1890 – 4 June 1967) was anEstonian politician.[1] She was a member of the National Constituent Assembly (1937) and a Member of the Second Chamber of the National Council (1938) and the first women in both of these positions. She was a well-knownwomen's rights activist. She was married to politicianKaarel Eenpalu, who was prime minister in 1938–1939.
Eenpalu studied in Tartu in 1911–1912. She was a librarian at Tartu Public Library Society in 1913–1914, at a high school for girls in 1919–1920 and as a teacher at a high school in Stockholm in 1920–26. She was a co-founder of the Estonian Female Student's Society (1911), member of the central committee of the Estonian Women's Club from 1928, Chairperson of the Central Society of the Estonian Rural Women in 1929–1940 and a member of the National Economic Council in 1935–1938. In 1937, she was a member of the national housing department, and in 1938–1940 she was the only female member of the Second Chamber of the National Council.[citation needed]
She was arrested in 1941 and deported to Tomsk Oblast, where she remained until 1956.[1]
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