Shankar Dayal Sharma

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{{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 = (1918-08-19)19 August 1918 |birth_place = Bhopal, Bhopal State, British India
(now in Madhya Pradesh, India) |death_date = 26 December 1999(1999-12-26) (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 audio speaker iconpronunciation  (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]

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  1. "Shankar Dayal Sharma - President of India". www.gloriousindia.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.