Gopal Swarup Pathak
{{Short description|Vice President of India from 1969 to 1974}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific prefix =
| name = Gopal Swarup Pathak
| native_name =
| image = File:Gopal Swarup Pathak1.jpg
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| caption = Official portrait, {{circa|1970}}
| office = Vice President of India
| president = V. V. Giri
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
| primeminister = Indira Gandhi
| term_start = 31 August 1969
| term_end = 30 August 1974
| predecessor = V. V. Giri
| successor = B. D. Jatti
| office2 = Governor of Mysore
| 1blankname2 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata2 = S. Nijalingappa
Veerendra Patil
| term_start2 = 13 May 1967
| term_end2 = 31 August 1969
| predecessor2 = V. V. Giri
| successor2 = Dharma Vira
| birth_date = {{birth date|1896|2|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bareilly, North-Western Provinces, British India
(now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1982|10|4|1896|2|26|df=y}}
| death_place =
| party = Independent
| alma_mater = Allahabad University
}}
Gopal Swarup Pathak (26 February 1896 – 4 October 1982) 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
Born on 26 February 1896 at Bareilly in the North-Western Provinces, he studied law at Allahabad University .
File:President V. V. Giri administering the oath of office of Vice President of India to Shri. G.S. Pathak at Rashtrapati Bhavan.jpg, {{circa|1969}}]]
He was the 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.[http://auaa.in/?page_id=31 "He is Proud Past Alumni Allahabad University"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120707073335/http://auaa.in/?page_id=31 |date=7 July 2012 }}. Allahabad university Alumni Association web page say[https://web.archive.org/web/20080115090226/http://www.auaa.in/proudpast.html " Internet Archive of Proud Past Alumni"][https://archive.today/20120707073335/http://auaa.in/?page_id=31 "" Internet Archive of Proud Past Alumni"]
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).[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDE123BF930A25751C1A96E948260 Nagendra Singh, Judge At the World Court, 74] New York Times, 13 December 1988.
References
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External links
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020211175411/http://nitpu3.kar.nic.in/rajbhavan/governors/GopalSwarupPathak.htm |date=11 February 2002 }}
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Category:University of Allahabad alumni
Category:Governors of Karnataka
Category:Judges of the Allahabad High Court
Category:Vice presidents of India
Category:Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh
Category:20th-century Indian judges