József Gáti

{{short description|Hungarian politician}}

Dr. József Gáti (1885, in Uzhhorod – 1945) was an ethnic Hungarian communist politician from Subcarpathian Rus'.{{cite book|author=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Carpatho-Rusyn studies: an annotated bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5wdAQAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Garland|isbn=978-0-88033-420-4|page=58}}{{cite book|title=Ellenszélben: felvidéki magyar kisebbség elsö évei a Csehszlovák Köztársaságban (1918-1925)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KaOaAAAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Kalligram Könyvkiadó|isbn=978-80-7149-099-9|page=174}} Gáti lived in Užhorod. He held a doctorate in Fine Arts.{{cite book|title=Egyetemes philologiai közlöny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGFAAQAAIAAJ|volume=34|year=1910|publisher=Franklin-Társulat könyvnyomdája|page=448}} Around 1910 he worked at the newspaper Határszéli Ujság ('Frontier Newspaper').

He was one of the most active members of the communist group that emerged in Subcarpathian Rus' in 1920.{{cite book|author=János Gyetvai|title=Kéet világ között: emigrációs emlḱeimből|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iu0wAQAAIAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó|page=56}} Gáti served as editor of Ungvári Munkás ('Užhorod Workers') and Munkás Újság ('Workers Newspaper').{{cite book|title=Magyar könyvszemle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bk8wAQAAIAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Magyar tudományos akadémia Könyvkiadó hivatala.|page=164}} Gáti was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia in the 1924 Užhorod electoral district by-election.{{cite book|author1=Csilla Fedinec|author2=Mikola Vehes|title=Kárpátalja, 1919-2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TspLAQAAIAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Argumentum|isbn=978-963-446-596-6|page=70}}