Mohammad Hamid Ansari - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Mohammad Hamid Ansari (pronunciation ; born 1 April 1937) is an Indian politician and retired Indian Foreign Service officer who served as the 12th Vice President of India from 2007 to 2017.
He has also served as an Indian ambassador and is ex-chairman of Rajya Sabha.
Ansari was the first person to be re-elected as Indian Vice President after Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1957.Ansari worked as an ambassador and served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University from 2000 to 2002.
Later he was Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities from 2006 to 2007.
He was elected as the Vice-President of India on 10 August 2007 and took office on 11 August 2007.
He was reelected on 7 August 2012 and was sworn-in by Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India.
The oath taking ceremony was conducted at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 11 August 2012.
His second term ended in August 2017 since he was not offered another term,he decided not to run for a third term in the 2017 vice-presidential election.
Upon the inauguration of Ram Nath Kovind as President of India in 2017, Ansari became the first Indian Vice-President to serve during the terms of three presidents. He is the longest serving chairman of Rajya Sabha.

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