Pranab Mukherjee

**Pranab Kumar Mukherjee** (11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician. He was the 13th President of India serving from 2012 through 2017. He was a member of the Indian National Congress.

## Political career

Mukherjee became President on 25 July 2012. He succeeded Pratibha Patil (served 2007–12), India’s first woman president. Before Mukherjee became President, he had served as Foreign, Defence, Commerce and Finance Minister at different times in his political career. Mukherjee also served as a member of both Lok Sabha (twice) and Rajya Sabha (five times).

In 2017, Mukherjee decided not to run for re-election and to retire from politics after leaving the presidency due to "health complications relating to old age". He was replaced by Ram Nath Kovind on 25 July 2017.

## Life

Mukherjee was born in the village of Mirati in Birbhum District of West Bengal. Mukherjee’s father, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, was deeply involved in India’s struggle for independence from Great Britain in the first half of the 20th century. Pranab was educated at the Suri Vidyasagar College (then affiliated with the University of Calcutta), and he later earned an advanced degree in history and political science as well as a law degree from the university. He was married to Suvra Mukherjee from 1957 until her death in 18 August 2015(aged 74).

In early August 2020, Mukherjee was hospitalized in an army hospital after falling in his shower in New Delhi. On 10 August, he was diagnosed with COVID-19. He died on 31 August 2020 from sepsis and a lung infection caused by COVID-19, aged 84.

## Other websites

- Pranab Mukherjee Official website
- Pranab Mukherjee at Twitter
- Pranab Mukherjee Death Live News

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Pranab Mukherjee
- **honorific-prefix**: His Excellency
- **office**: 13th President of India
- **image**: Pranab Mukherjee Portrait.jpg
- **nickname**: Pranab Da
Poltuda
- **predecessor**: Pratibha Patil
- **primeminister**: Manmohan Singh
 Narendra Modi
- **successor**: Ram Nath Kovind
- **vicepresident**: Mohammad Hamid Ansari
- **predecessor2**: Ramaswamy Venkataraman, R. Venkataraman
- **primeminister2**: Indira Gandhi
- **party**: Independent politician, Independent
- **otherparty**: Indian National Congress
Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress
Bangla Congress
- **office1**: Minister of Finance (India), Minister of Finance
- **predecessor1**: Manmohan Singh
- **primeminister1**: Manmohan Singh
- **successor1**: Manmohan Singh
- **successor2**: V. P. Singh
- **birth place**: Mirati, Bengal Presidency, British Raj, British India
(now West Bengal, India)
- **death place**: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- **children**: 3 including,
- **alma mater**: University of Calcutta (B.A., M.A., LL.B.)
- **nationality**: Indian People, Indian
- **awards**: Bharat Ratna (2019)
 Padma Vibhushan (2008)
- **term start**: 25 July 2012
- **term end**: 25 July 2017
- **term start1**: 24 January 2009
- **term end1**: 24 July 2012
- **term start2**: 5 January 1982
- **term end2**: 31 December 1984
- **office3**: Minister of Defence (India), Minister of Defence
- **primeminister3**: Manmohan Singh
- **term start3**: 22 May 2004
- **term end3**: 26 October 2006
- **predecessor3**: George Fernandes
- **successor3**: A. K. Antony
- **office4**: Minister of External Affairs (India), Minister of External Affairs
- **primeminister4**: Manmohan Singh
- **term start4**: 24 October 2006
- **term end4**: 22 May 2009
- **predecessor4**: Manmohan Singh
- **successor4**: S. M. Krishna
- **primeminister5**: P. V. Narasimha Rao
- **term start5**: 10 February 1995
- **term end5**: 16 May 1996
- **predecessor5**: Dinesh Singh (Uttar Pradesh politician), Dinesh Singh
- **successor5**: Sikander Bakht
- **office6**: Leader of the House (Lok Sabha), Leader of the Lok Sabha
- **term start6**: 22 May 2004
- **term end6**: 26 June 2012
- **predecessor6**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **successor6**: Sushilkumar Shinde
- **office7**: Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission
- **primeminister7**: P. V. Narasimha Rao
- **term start7**: 24 June 1991
- **term end7**: 15 May 1996
- **predecessor7**: Mohan Dharia
- **successor7**: Madhu Dandavate
- **office8**: Leader of the House (Rajya Sabha), Leader of the Rajya Sabha
- **term start8**: January 1980
- **term end8**: 31 December 1984
- **predecessor8**: K. C. Pant
- **successor8**: V. P. Singh
- **office9**: Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
- **term start9**: 10 May 2004
- **term end9**: 26 June 2012
- **constituency9**: Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency), Jangipur
- **predecessor9**: Abul Hasnat Khan
- **successor9**: Abhijit Mukherjee
- **office10**: Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
- **term start10**: 1 January 1969
- **term end10**: 1 February 2002
- **constituency10**: Various
- **native name lang**: hi