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N. M. Joseph

Politician; Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ16106307 ↗
Source-derived summary

Neendukunnel Mathew Joseph (18 October 1943 – 13 September 2022) was an Indian politician who was a member of the 8th Kerala Legislative Assembly. N. M. Joseph is the son of Shri N. J. Mathew and Annamma Mathew. He married Elizabeth and has one son and one daughter. He was Minister of Forests from 1987 to 1991. He served as the Gen.secretary, Senior vice-president and President of Janata Dal (Secular) during multiple times.

Joseph was a professor at St. Thomas College in Pala before entering politics. He died in Kottayam on 13 September 2022, at the age of 78.

Editorial summary

“N. M. Joseph” enters the record as politician; Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Joseph, Politician and Member can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 2022, 1987, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1943-10-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Joseph, Politician and Member.
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“N. M. Joseph” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Joseph, Politician and Member provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q16106307. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1943, 2022, 1987 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “N. M. Joseph” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.