{{Short description|Indian politician (1944–2019)}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | order1 = [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha]] for [[Mayiladuthurai (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mayiladuthurai]] | term_start1 = 10 March 1998 | term_end1 = 26 April 1999 | monarch1 = | prime_minister1 = [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] | predecessor1 = [[P. V. Rajendran]] | successor1 = [[Mani Shankar Aiyar]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1944|7|1}} | birth_place = [[Kumbakonam]], India | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|1|16|1944|7|1}} | death_place = Kumbakonam | party = [[Tamil Maanila Congress|TMC]] | alma_mater = | profession = | spouse = | children = 2 }} '''Krishnasamy Krishnamoorthy''' (1 July 1944 – 16 January 2019) was an Indian politician. He served as a [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha|Member]] of [[Lok Sabha]] from Mayiladuthurai from 1998 to 1999.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3869.htm|title=Biographical Sketch Member of Parliament 12th Lok Sabha|publisher=Parliament of India|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref>
He was born on 1 July 1944 to Krishnasamy at Kumbakonam in [[India]]. He graduated in arts from Government College, Kumbakonam and qualified as a lawyer from [[Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai|Madras Law College]].<ref name="bio" />
== Politics ==
Krishnamoorthi served as a Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1988. In 1998, he stood for election from Mayiladuthurai constituency for 12th Lok Sabha as a candidate of [[Tamil Maanila Congress]] and won over [[Pattali Makkal Katchi]] candidate by margin of 42,456 votes in which the election [[Mani Shankar Aiyar]] finished fourth and lost his deposit.<ref name="bio" />
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