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Estonian presidents

presidency and built up the Republic of Estonia in the widest sense," president Rüütel had said. Arnold Rüütel (1928-). Before his position as president he was a teacher at the Tartu School of Mechanization of Agriculture from 1955 to 1957. In 1957, he was appointed as head expert in livestock and director of the experimental farm of the Estonian Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Institute, and in 1963 he was appointed as Director of theTartu Model Sovkhoz, a position he held until 1969. From 1969 to 1977, Arnold Rüütel was Rector of the Estonian Academy of Agriculture. In 2001 he was elected as president. While his reign. Estonia joined the European Union. Rüütel lost his position as president in 2006, when Ilves won the election with 174 votes, while Rüütel got 162. Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1953-) is the fourth president of Estonia. He was born in Sweden and moved to the United States when he was 5. In 1981 he moved to Canada