Somnath Chatterjee

The Honourable Somnath Chatterjee MP
Chatterjee in February 2009
14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
In office 4 August 2004 – 16 May 2009
President	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Pratibha Patil
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Deputy Speaker	Charanjit Singh Atwal
Leader of the House	Pranab Mukherjee
Preceded by	Manohar Joshi
Succeeded by	Meira Kumar
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 19 May 1985 – 16 May 2009
Preceded by	Saradish Roy
Succeeded by	Dr Ram Chandra Dome
Constituency	Bolpur, West Bengal
In office 28 April 1977 – 15 June 1984
Preceded by	Indrajit Gupta
Succeeded by	Mamata Banerjee
Constituency	Jadavpur, West Bengal
In office 18 May 1971 – 12 May 1977
Preceded by	Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee
Constituency	Bardhaman, West Bengal
Personal details
Born	(1929-07-25)25 July 1929 Tezpur, Assam, British India
Died	13 August 2018(2018-08-13) (aged 89) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Political party	Independent (2008–2018) Communist Party of India (Marxist) (1968–2008)
Spouse	Renu Chatterjee ​ (m. 1950)​
Children	3
Parent	Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee (father)
Residence	Kolkata
Alma mater	Mitra Institution Bhowanipur Branch University of Calcutta (BA) University of Cambridge (MA) Middle Temple (Barrister-at-Law)
Profession	Lawyer
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Somnath Chatterjee (25 July 1929 – 13 August 2018) was an Indian politician who was associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for most of his life, though he had been a non affiliated independent during his last decade. He was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha (House of the People) from 2004 to 2009.^[1]