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{{Short description|Estonian politician (1890–1942)}}
[[File:Theodor Pool.jpg|thumb|Theodore Pool]]
'''Theodor Pool''' (8 December 1890 [[Piistaoja]] (now [[Tori Parish]]), [[Kreis Pernau]] – 25 August 1942 [[Sverdlovsk, Russia|Sverdlovsk]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]]) was an [[Estonia]]n politician, agronomist and writer. He was a member of the [[Constitutional Assembly of Estonia]] and of the [[I Riigikogu|I]], [[II Riigikogu|II]], [[III Riigikogu|III]] and [[IV Riigikogu]], representing the [[Estonian Labour Party]].<ref name="riigikogu.ee">{{cite web |title=Juhatus ja liikmed |url=https://www.riigikogu.ee/tutvustus-ja-ajalugu/riigikogu-ajalugu/i-riigikogu-koosseis/juhatus-ja-liikmed/ |website=Riigikogu |access-date=16 February 2021 |language=et}}</ref>
In 1919 he was Minister of Food and Agricultural Affairs and the Minister of Agriculture, from 1920 until 1929. Pool was arrested in 1941 by the [[NKVD]] during the first [[Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940)|Soviet occupation of Estonia]] and placed within the [[Gulag]] camp system. He was executed by gunshot in Sverdlovsk Oblast the following year.<ref name="nlib.ee">{{cite web |title=1919 {{!}} Meie parlament ja aeg |url=https://meieparlamentjaaeg.nlib.ee/1918-1940/1919 |website=meieparlamentjaaeg.nlib.ee |access-date=24 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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