A member of the Socialist Workers' Party, he represented Uusimaa between September 1922 and October 1923.
[1] He was a janitor at a workers' house in Hyvinkää (1906-1912) and a master spinner at a spinning and weaving factory in Viljamaa, Orimattila (1912-1918).
[1] Kallio was imprisoned for political reasons following the end of the Finnish Civil War in 1918.
[1] Following release from prison in 1920, he resumed working as a janitor at a workers' house in Hyvinkää, from 1920 to 1923.
[1] He was a foreman at a felt factory in Kirvu (1937-1940) and a district insurance manager in Hyvinkää until 1945.