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Gopal Swarup Pathak

Gopal Swarup Pathak
Official portrait, c. 1970
Vice President of India
In office
31 August 1969 – 30 August 1974
PresidentV. V. Giri
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byV. V. Giri
Succeeded byB. D. Jatti
Governor of Mysore
In office
13 May 1967 – 31 August 1969
Chief MinisterS. Nijalingappa
Veerendra Patil
Preceded byV. V. Giri
Succeeded byDharma Vira
Union Minister of Law and Justice
In office
24 January 1966 – 13 March 1967
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byAshoke Kumar Sen
Succeeded byPanampilly Govinda Menon
Personal details
Born(1896-02-26)26 February 1896
Bareilly, North-Western Provinces, British India
(present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died4 October 1982(1982-10-04) (aged 86)
PartyIndependent
SpousePrakashwati Pathak
Alma materAllahabad University

Gopal Swarup Pathak (26 February 1896 – 31 August 1982)[1] was the vice president of India from August 1969 to August 1974. He was the first Indian vice president not to succeed his superior as President.

Life

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Born on 26 February 1896 at Bareilly in the North-Western Provinces, he studied law at Allahabad University .

Pathak being sworned as the Vice President of India, c. 1969

He was a judge in Allahabad High Court 1945-46, member of Rajya Sabha 1960-66, Union Minister of Law 1966-67, Governor of Mysore state 1967–69 and Chancellor of Mysore University, Bangalore University and Karnataka University. Honored with "Proud Past Alumni" in the list of 42 members, from "Allahabad University Alumni Association", NCR, Ghaziabad (Greater Noida) Chapter 2007–2008 registered under society act 1860 with registration no. 407/2000.[2][3][4]

He died on 4 October 1982. His son R. S. Pathak was Chief Justice of India and one of the four judges from India to have been on the International Court of Justice in The Hague (the others being Nagendra Singh who served as its President from 1985 to 1988, B. N. Rau (1952–1953), and Dalveer Bhandari since 2012).[5]

Vice President (1969-1974)

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References

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  1. ^ "Sh. Gopal Swarup Pathak | Vice President of India | Government of India". vicepresidentofindia.nic.in. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  2. ^ "He is Proud Past Alumni Allahabad University" Deprecated link archived 7 July 2012 at archive.today. Allahabad university Alumni Association web page say
  3. ^ " Internet Archive of Proud Past Alumni"
  4. ^ "" Internet Archive of Proud Past Alumni"
  5. ^ Nagendra Singh, Judge At the World Court, 74 New York Times, 13 December 1988.
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