<Li> Assassinated or died in office </Li> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Ul> <Li> Ignoring an intervening President's rule from 17 February 1980 to 9 June 1980, the Chief Minister with the longest tenure (in successive terms) in office was M.G. Ramachandran, lasting 10 years, 5 months and 25 days from 30 June 1977 until his death on 24 December 1987 . </Li> <Li> K. Kamaraj was the Chief Minister with the longest tenure without intervening President's rules . His terms lasted from 13 April 1954 to 2 October 1963, i.e. 9 years, 5 months and 19 days . </Li> <Li> The shortest period is 24 days by Janaki Ramachandran who held office from 7 January 1988 to 30 January 1988 . </Li> <Li> J. Jayalalithaa holds a record by sworning as Chief Minister six times, followed by Karunanidhi who sworn five times . </Li> <Li> On 21 September 2001, the Supreme Court of India ruled that the appointment of Ms. Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister on 14 May 2001 was null and invalid, with retrospective effect . Therefore, technically, decisions of her cabinet during the period May--September 2001 in effect became legal fiction . </Li> <Li> J. Jayalalithaa became the first incumbent Chief Minister to lose her post in a graft case when a special court sentenced her to four years of prison term on 27 September 2014 . The sentence was subsequently overturned by the Karnataka High Court which acquitted Jayalalithaa of all charges and that allowed her to return to the post for a fourth term . </Li> <Li> M. Karunanidhi has been in the office as CM for around 6863 days (Around 18 years) in multiple tenures . Also was the only Indian Chief Minister holding post at different occasions spanning 6 decades starting from 1960s (from 1969), 1970s (until 1976), 1980s (from 1989), 1990s (until 1991 and again from 1996), 2000s (until 2001 and again from 2006) and 2010s (up to 2011). </Li> </Ul> <Li> Ignoring an intervening President's rule from 17 February 1980 to 9 June 1980, the Chief Minister with the longest tenure (in successive terms) in office was M.G. Ramachandran, lasting 10 years, 5 months and 25 days from 30 June 1977 until his death on 24 December 1987 . </Li>

Chief minister of tamilnadu from 1950 to 2017 with photos