Editing Somnath Chatterjee (section)

{{Short description|Indian politician (1929–2018)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2020}} 
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = The Speaker, Lok Sabha, Shri Somnath Chatterjee addressing a press conference, in New Delhi on February 27, 2009.jpg
|caption = Chatterjee in February 2009
| name = Somnath Chatterjee
|honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
|honorific-suffix = [[Member of parliament|MP]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|7|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Tezpur]], [[Assam Province|Assam]], [[British India]]
| residence = [[Kolkata]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2018|08|13|1929|07|25}}
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| office = [[Speaker of the Lok Sabha]]
| term_start = 4 August 2004
| term_end = 16 May 2009
| president           =  
*[[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]
*[[Pratibha Patil]]
| primeminister       = [[Manmohan Singh]]
| 1blankname          = [[Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha|Deputy Speaker]]
| 1namedata           = [[Charanjit Singh Atwal]]
| 2blankname         = [[Leader of the House in Lok Sabha|Leader of the House]]
| 2namedata          = [[Pranab Mukherjee]]
| predecessor = [[Manohar Joshi]]
| successor = [[Meira Kumar]]
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency2 = [[Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bolpur]], [[West Bengal]]
| term_start2 = 19 May 1985
| term_end2 = 16 May 2009
| predecessor2 = [[Saradish Roy]]
| successor2 = [[Ram Chandra Dome|Dr Ram Chandra Dome]]
| constituency3 = [[Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur]], [[West Bengal]]
| term_start3 = 28 April 1977
| term_end3 = 15 June 1984
| predecessor3 = [[Indrajit Gupta]]
| successor3 = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
| constituency4=  [[Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bardhaman]], [[West Bengal]]
| term_start4 = 18 May 1971
| term_end4 = 12 May 1977
| predecessor4 = [[Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee]]
| party = [[Independent politician|Independent]] (2008–2018)<br />[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (1968–2008)
| otherparty = 
| alma_mater = Mitra Institution Bhowanipur Branch<br/>[[University of Calcutta]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[University of Cambridge]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<br/>[[Middle Temple]] ([[Barrister-at-Law]])
| profession = [[Lawyer]] 
| spouse = {{marriage|Renu Chatterjee|7 February 1950}}
| father = [[Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee]]  
| children = 3
| footnotes = 
| website = 
| signature =
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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.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/former-ls-speaker-somnath-chatterjee-dies-at-89/articleshow/65381547.cms | title=Somnath Chatterjee, former Lok Sabha Speaker, dies at 89 | work=[[The Times of India]] | date=13 August 2018 | access-date=13 August 2018}}</ref>