Politics
{{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 RaoAtal Bihari VajpayeeH. D. Deve GowdaI. K. Gujral
|vicepresident = K. R. Narayanan
|term_start = 25 July 1992
|term_end = 25 July 1997
|predecessor = R. Venkataraman
|successor = K. R. Narayanan
|office2 = 8th Vice President of India
|president2 = R. Venkataraman
|primeminister2 = Rajiv GandhiV. 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 PunjabAdministrator 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 = [[List of Chief Minister of Bhopal
|office5 = Governor of Andhra Pradesh
|1blankname5 = Chief Minister
|1namedata5 = Nadendla Bhaskara RaoN. 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 LucknowUniversity of CambridgeLincoln's InnHarvard University
|profession = Lawyer, Politician
|signature = Signature of Shanker Dayal Sharma.svg
|religion = Hinduism
|honorific_prefix=His Excellency}}
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma pronunciation (help·info) was the ninth President of India, serving from 1992 to 1997. Prior to his presidency, Sharma had been the eighth Vice President of India, serving under R. Venkataraman. He was also the Chief Minister (1952–1956) of Bhopal, and Cabinet Minister (1956–1967), holding the portfolios of Education, Law, Public Works, Industry and Commerce, National Resources and Separate Revenue. He was the President of the Indian National Congress in 1972–1974 and returned to the Government as Union Minister for Communications from 1974 to 1977.
