Johannes Klesment (also Johannes Kleesment; 30 May 1896 Keila Parish (now Keila), Kreis Harrien – 23 December 1967 Washington, D.C.) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the third and fourth legislatures of the Estonian Parliament, representing the Estonian Socialist Workers' Party. Klesment served as minister of justice in the Estonian government-in-exile from 1945 to 1953. In the 1950s, Klesment also served as the editor of The Baltic Review, a journal published in New York by the Committees for a Free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from 1953 to 1971.
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1896 births
1967 deaths
People from Keila
People from Kreis Harrien
Estonian Socialist Workers' Party politicians
Members of the Riigikogu, 1926–1929
Members of the Riigikogu, 1929–1932
20th-century Estonian lawyers
University of Tartu alumni
Recipients of the Cross of Liberty (Estonia) Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to the United States
