Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

5th President of India
Vice President: Basappa Danappa Jatti
Preceded by: Varahagiri Venkata Giri
Succeeded by: Basappa Danappa Jatti (Acting)
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Born: May 13, 1905

Died February: 11, 1977 (aged 71)

Religion: Muslim

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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (13 May 1905 - 11 February 1977) was President of India from 1974 to 1977.
Ahmed was born on 13 May 1905, in Delhi, India, to Col. Zalnur Ali Ahmed and Ruqqaiya Sultan, the daughter of the Nawab of Loharu, Aizz-uddin Ahmad Khan (r. 1920-1926) [1].
He was educated at St. Stephen’s College and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and subsequently became an active member of the Congress Party. Picked for the presidency by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1974, he became the second Muslim to be elected President. He would later use his constitutional authority as head of state to allow her to rule by decree once emergency rule was proclaimed in 1975. He died in office.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Pristina, in Kosovo in 1975, during his visit to Yugoslavia.