Kaarle August Kankari (28 January 1889 – 5 June 1948) was a Finnish trade unionist, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature.
A member of the Socialist Workers' Party, he represented Uusimaa between September 1922 and October 1923.
[1] He was chairman of the Finnish Woodworkers Union (Suomen Puutyöntekijäin Liitto) from 1917 to 1918 and from 1919 to 1921.
[1] Kankari was imprisoned for political reasons following the end of the Finnish Civil War in 1918.
[1] He was a Finnish Trade Union Federation official from 1921 to 1922 and chairman of the Finnish Sawmill, Transport and Mixed Workers Union (Suomen Saha-, Kuljetus- ja Sekatyöväen Liitto) from 1922 to 1924.