Editing Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (section)

===Career as academic and civil servant===
Ståhlberg soon began a very long career as the presenter and planner of the [[Senate of Finland|Senate's]] legislation, during the period when Finland was a [[Grand Duchy]] under [[Tsar|Czarist]] rule. He was a "''constitutionalist''" – supporting the already existing Finnish constitutional framework and constitutional legislative policies, including legislative resistance, against the attempted [[Russification of Finland]]. He also came to support the call for [[women's suffrage]], and had a moderate line on [[Prohibition]].

Ståhlberg served as secretary of the [[Diet of Finland]]'s finance committee in 1891 before being appointed as an assistant professor of Administrative Law and Economics at the [[University of Helsinki]] in 1894. It was at this time that he began his active involvement in politics, becoming a member of the [[Young Finnish Party]].

In 1893, Ståhlberg married his first wife, Hedvig Irene Wåhlberg (1869–1917). They had six children together: Kaarlo (1894–1977), Aino (1895–1974),  Elli (1899–1986), Aune (1901–1967), Juho (1907–1973), and Kyllikki (1908–1994).

In 1898, Ståhlberg was appointed as Protocol Secretary for the Senate's civil affairs subdepartment. This was the second-highest [[Rapporteur]] position in the Finnish government. This appointment to a senior position in the Finnish administration was approved by the new [[Governor General of Finland]], [[Nikolai Bobrikov]], whose term in office saw the beginning of the period of Russification, and whose policies represented all that the ''constitutionalist'' Ståhlberg was opposed to. Ståhlberg was elected in 1901 as a member of Helsinki City Council, serving until 1903. In 1902, he was dismissed as Protocol Secretary, due to his strict legalist views, and his opposition to legislation on compulsory military service.

[[File:FIN-50m-1963-anv.jpg|thumb|upright|K. J. Ståhlberg on a 50 mark note from 1963.]]