Rise in Politics
In 1918, in the government of Prime Minister Nils Edén, Sandler became Secretary of State to the Minister of Finance, Fredrik Thorsson. He continued in the same capacity when Hjalmar Branting became Prime Minister in 1920. In 1921 when Thorsson went on to start the new Ministry of Trade, Sandler took his place as the Minister of Finance, a capacity he held until 1923. In Hjalmar Brantings second government (1921 – 1923), Sandler was a Minister without Portfolio, and in the third the Minister of Trade. He took the latter position after some persuasion, as he was intent to take up a job as the headmaster of the folk high school in Brunnsvik.
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