Shankar Dayal Sharma
{{Infobox Officeholder
|honorific-prefix = His Excellency
|name = Shankar Dayal Sharma
|native_name =शंकर दयाल शर्मा
|image = Shankar Dayal Sharma 36.jpg
|office = 9th President of India
|primeminister = P. V. Narasimha Rao
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
H. D. Deve Gowda
I. K. Gujral
|vicepresident = K. R. Narayanan
|term_start = 25 July 1992
|term_end = 25 July 1997
|predecessor = [[R. Venkatar]
|successor = K. R. Narayanan
|office2 = 8th Vice President of India
|president2 = R. Venkataraman
|primeminister2 = Rajiv Gandhi
V. P. Singh
|term_start2 = 3 September 1987
|term_end2 = 25 July 1992
|predecessor2 = R. Venkataraman
|successor2 = K. R. Narayanan
|office3 = Governor of Maharashtra
|1blankname3 = Chief Minister
|1namedata3 = Shankarrao Chavan
|term_start3 = 3 April 1986
|term_end3 = 2 September 1987
|predecessor3 = Kona Prabhakar Rao
|successor3 = Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
|office4 = Governor of Punjab
Administrator of Chandigarh
|1blankname4 = Chief Minister
|1namedata4 = Surjit Singh Barnala
|term_start4 = 26 November 1985
|term_end4 = 2 April 1986
|predecessor4 = Hokishe Sema
|successor4 = Siddhartha Shankar Ray
|office5 = Governor of Andhra Pradesh
|1blankname5 = Chief Minister
|1namedata5 = Nadendla Bhaskara Rao
N. T. Rama Rao
|term_start5 = 29 August 1984
|term_end5 = 26 November 1985
|predecessor5 = Thakur Ram Lal
|successor5 = Kumudben Manishankar Joshi
|birth_date = 19 August 1918
|birth_place = Bhopal, Bhopal State, British India
(now in Madhya Pradesh, India)
|death_date = 26 December 1999 (aged 81)
|death_place = New Delhi, India
|party = Indian National Congress
|spouse = Vimala Sharma
|children = 2 sons, 1 daughter
|alma_mater = University of Lucknow
University of Cambridge
Lincoln's Inn
Harvard University
|profession = Lawyer, Politician
|signature = Signature of Shanker Dayal Sharma.svg
|honorific_prefix=His Excellency}}
Shankar Dayal Sharma pronunciation (help·info) (19 August 1918 – 26 December 1999) was an Indian politician. He was the ninth President of India from 1992 to 1997. Sharma had been the eighth Vice President of India, serving under R. Venkataraman.[1]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Shankar Dayal Sharma - President of India". www.gloriousindia.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.