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August Johannes Salum
Estonian politician
August Johannes Salum (19 May 1894 Mäksa Parish, Tartu County – June 1969) was an Estonian veterinarian and politician. He was a member of IV and V Riigikogu. He was a member of the Riigikogu beginning on 2 September 1930, when he replaced Hans Miller.[1]
August Salum was born in present-day Kastre Parish. He served in the Estonian Defence Forces during the Estonian War of Independence. From 1924-1926, he studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tartu. He then studied at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Tartu from 1927-1930 and from 1936-1939.[2]
He worked as a veterinarian on the island of Saaremaa from 1939 to 1941, in Palamuse from 1941 to 1944, in Jõgeva from 1944 to 1953, and in Põltsamaa from 1953 to 1965.[2]