11 Facts About Arvid Posse

Arvid Posse was then the Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency.

Arvid Posse feared, among other things, that the amendments, if adopted, could undermine the proposed electoral reform.

Notwithstanding this statement, at the first session of the Riksdag's Second Chamber in 1867, Arvid Posse became the self-appointed spokesman for the agrarian group, effectively making him the indisputed leader of the new Second Chamber.

Arvid Posse entered government on 19 April 1880, being appointed Prime Minister, following the resignation of Baron Louis Gerhard De Geer.

At the Parliament of 1883 the Arvid Posse Government tabled their proposals.

In return the Arvid Posse wanted Parliament to approve the Government's proposals to establish a military based partly on permanently drafted soldiers and partly on conscription.

However, the Upper House's insistence on retaining the allotment system, and, perhaps more importantly, the Lantmanna Party's cutbacks, led to a series of dramas and a defeat for Arvid Posse, following which he resigned as Prime Minister on 13 June 1883.

Arvid Posse was then appointed President of the Administrative Court of Appeal, which he remained until 1889.

Arvid Posse expressed his sympathies for a moderate suffrage reform.

When speaking in Parliament, Arvid Posse expressed himself succinctly and clearly, often emphatically but always with calm and dignity.

Arvid Posse was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and an honorary member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund and the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences.