Yoon Thorlauksson , Isl. Jón Þorláksson ( March 3, 1877 - March 20, 1935 ) - Prime Minister of Iceland from July 8, 1926 to August 28, 1927 .
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The title of this article is an Icelandic personal name . Icelanders, with rare exceptions, have no surnames; the part of the name ending in "-son" or "-author" is not a surname, but a middle name. Patronymic Icelanders are not accepted; The person described in the article is correctly called Yone .
In 1905 - 1917 - the chief engineer of Iceland , in 1921 he was elected to the Althing . In 1924 he became Minister of Finance in the government of Joun Magnusson , strengthening the Icelandic krona , after the death of the latter he was elected the new Prime Minister from the Conservative Party . After her defeat in 1927 in the parliamentary elections - the leader of the opposition. In 1929 he became one of the founders of the conservative Independence Party and its leader, having resigned from this post in 1934 , from 1933 until his death - mayor of Reykjavik .