Vembaukum Sadagopacharlu (died 1863) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council

Madras Legislative Council

Tamil Nadu Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It began its existence as Madras Legislative Council, the first provincial legislature for Madras Presidency. It was initially created as an advisory body in 1861, by the British...

 from 1861 to 1863. He was the first native Indian to serve as a member of the council.

Early life

Sadagopacharlu hailed from the village of Vembakkam

Vembakkam

Vembakkam is a village situated in the Thiruvannamalai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located about 20 kilometres from the town of Kanchipuram.It contains a BDO office for many villages around it...

 near Kanchipuram

Kanchipuram

Kanchipuram, or Kanchi, is a temple city and a municipality in Kanchipuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a temple town and the headquarters of Kanchipuram district...

. He matriculated from the Presidency College, Madras in 1858 and studied law. Soon, he enrolled himself as a lawyer, and along with his brother V. Rajagopacharlu emerged as one of the first and foremost Indians in the bar making up a fortune in a short time.

Politics

Sadagopacharlu was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council in 1861 and served until his death in 1863. Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty

Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty

Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty CSI was an Indian merchant, Indian independence activist and political activist who founded the Madras Native Association and the first Indian-owned newspaper, The Crescent....

was appointed to fill the seat left by his death