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| name = A. J. John<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1893|7|18}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Thalayolaparambu]], [[Vaikom]], [[Travancore]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1957|10|1|1893|7|18}}<br />
| death_place = [[Madras]], India<br />
| office = [[List of chief ministers of Kerala|Chief Minister]] of [[Travancore-Cochin]]<br />
| term_start = March 1952<br />
| term_end = March 1954<br />
| governor = [[Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma]] ([[Rajapramukh]])<br />
| predecessor = [[C. Kesavan]]<br />
| successor = [[Pattom A. Thanu Pillai]]<br />
| constituency = [[Poonjar]]<br />
| party = Travancore State Congress (Merged with [[Indian National Congress]])<br />
| blank1 = Source<br />
|predecessor2=[[Sri Prakasa]]|termstart1=1956|office1=Governor of [[Madras State]]|firstminister1=[[K. Kamaraj]]|termend1=1957|succeeded1=[[Bhishnuram Medhi]]|appointer1=[[Rajendra Prasad]]}}<br />
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'''Anaparambil Joseph John''' (1893–1957) was an [[Indian freedom fighter]] and statesman. He was [[List of chief ministers of Kerala|Chief Minister]] of [[Travancore-Cochin]] and [[Governors of Madras|Governor]] of [[Madras State]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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He was born in 1893, at [[Thalayolaparambu]] and had his primary education at the local school and finished his school final from Vaikom High School. After doing the degree in Law in 1919 from the Law College, Madras, he began his career as a lawyer.<br />
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The turning point in John's life came when he plunged into freedom struggle after abandoning his bright future in his profession. He was one of the founding leaders of '''''Travancore State Congress'''''<br />
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He was in the forefront of the historic ''Abstention Movement''' which rocked [[Travancore]] for some time; an agitation against social injustice staged by the weaker sections and backward classes for proportionate representations in government service. He fought against ''Independent Travancore'' proposed by [[C. P. Ramaswami Iyer|Sir C P Rama Swamy Iyer]] in 1946.<br />
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== Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin ==<br />
[[File:A. J. John's TombStone.jpg|A. J. John's tombstone|thumb]]<br />
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In the first general elections held in India in 1951–52, John was elected from Poonjar constituency to the Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly. The Congress formed Government with AJ John as Chief Minister in March 1952 with the support of the Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress (T.T.N.C). With the demand for merging [[Kanyakumari district|Kanyakumari]] in Tamil Nadu on 23 September 1953, the majority of the ministry lost due to the withdrawal of support from the T.T.N.C.<ref>{{Cite book|title=History of Travancore Tamil Struggle|last=Yogeeswaran|first=B}}</ref> John served as Chief Minister until March 1954, until the new cabinet was formed.<br />
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He also served as Speaker of the first Travancore Legislative Assembly in 1948 and Minister for Home, Food, Civil Supplies and Forest in [[Panampilly Govinda Menon|Panampally Govinda Menon]] Ministry from 1955 to 1956.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2016/oct/04/lost-in-the-annals-of-history-1525085.html|title=Lost in the annals of history}}</ref><br />
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== Governor of Madras State ==<br />
John was appointed as Governor of [[Madras State]] on in 1956. He died in October 1957, when he was the Governor of Madras State after a sudden illness.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2016/oct/04/lost-in-the-annals-of-history-1525085.html|title=Lost in the annals of history|work=The New Indian Express|access-date=2018-11-01}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[T. M. Varghese]]<br />
* [[C. Kesavan]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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