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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian politician (1878–1939)}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}<br /> {{unreferenced|date=January 2010}}<br /> {{Infobox officeholder<br /> | name = Ambat Sivarama Menon<br /> | image = Ambat Sivarama Menon.jpg<br /> | caption = <br /> | birth_date = {{birth year|1878}}<br /> | birth_place = <br /> | death_date = {{dda|1939|08|10|1878}}<br /> | office = [[First Elected Minister of an Indian State]]<br /> | term_start = 17 June 1937<br /> | term_end = 30 August 1939<br /> | spouse = Pallissery Thekke Komarath Kalyanikutty Amma<br /> | children = 6 sons and 3 daughters<br /> }}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Ambat Sivarama Menon&#039;&#039;&#039; was a [[Indian independence movement|pre-independence]] Indian politician. He was the first elected minister of an Indian state.<br /> <br /> Born in 1878, Menon was the second of four children and only son of Ambat Ikkali Amma and Champathil Nanu Mannadiar.<br /> <br /> Graduating from [[Madras Law College]], Menon practised at the [[Madras High Court]]. An authority on the [[Marumakkathayam]] law of succession, he served as [[Academic examiner|examiner]] for the law degree examinations of [[Madras University]].<br /> <br /> Menon was a founders and president of the [[Triplicane Urban Co-Operative Society]] in [[Chennai]], the first consumer cooperative in India. He was also a director of Cochin Land Mortgage Bank.<br /> <br /> Menon was a founder of the [[Justice Party (India)|Justice Party]] and the editor of the party&#039;s official newspaper, &#039;&#039;The Liberator&#039;&#039;. In 1936, when he was first elected to the [[Cochin Legislative Council]] from Mulakunnathukavu constituency, he retired from legal practice and settled down in [[Thrissur]]. Two years later, in the elections held under a new Constitution ushering in [[Diarchy in Madras Presidency|dyarchy]], he was returned to the Assembly from [[Cheruthuruthy]]. As leader of the Cochin Congress, he was appointed Minister for Rural Development on June 17, 1937.<br /> <br /> Menon died due to [[cardiac arrest]] on August 30, 1939, during an official visit to his home town, [[Chittur]].<br /> <br /> Menon was married to Kalyanikutty Amma the daughter of Pallissery Thekke Komarath Parukutty Amma and Kavithilakan Kundur Narayana Menon. They had six sons and three daughters: Sri Sankara Narayanan, Satyabala, Ananda Padmanabhan, Bhagyanathan, Swarna Kumari, Chandrasekharan, Sarojini, Sivaraman and Sivadas. Smt. Kalyanikutty Amma died in March 1960.<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Menon, Ambat Sivarama}}<br /> [[Category:Kerala local politicians]]<br /> [[Category:1870 births]]<br /> [[Category:1939 deaths]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Kerala-politician-stub}}</div>

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