T. T. Krishnamachari

Thiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari
Krishnamachari in 2002 stamp of India
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for Madras South
In office
1957–1962
Prime MinisterPandit Nehru
Preceded byNone
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for Madras
In office
1951–1957
Prime MinisterPandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded byNone
Succeeded byBifurcated into Madras North and Madras South constituencies
Personal details
Born1899
Madras, British India
Died1974 (age 74-75)
Political partyIndian National Congress
ChildrenTT Rangasamy
TT Narasimman
TT Raghavan
TT Vasu
ProfessionPolitician, Entrepreneur TTK group

Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari (1899 – 1974) was an Indian politician who served as Finance Minister from 1956 to 1958 and from 1964 to 1966. He was also a founding member of the first governing body of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in New Delhi, India's first independent economic policy institute established in 1956.

Krishnamachari graduated from Madras Christian College (MCC) and was a visiting professor to the department of economics at MCC. He was popularly known as TTK.

He has the ignominy of being the first minister in free India to have resigned due to his involvement in a scam.[1] He was also a member of drafting committee, an entrepreneur and prominent leader within the Indian National Congress. He was also deputy viceroy from 1947-1950.

  1. ^ Subramanian, Samanth. (9 May 2012) Long View: India's Very First Corruption Scandal. The New York Times.