<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Neelam Nagaratnamma </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> University of Madras </Td> </Tr> <P> Neelam Sanjiva Reddy pronunciation (help info) (19 May 1913--1 June 1996) was the sixth President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982 . Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the Indian independence movement, he went on to hold several key offices in independent India--as the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, a two - time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a Union Minister--before becoming the youngest - ever Indian president . </P> <P> Born in present - day Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, Reddy completed his schooling at Adayar and joined the Government Arts College at Anantapur . He quit to become an Indian independence activist and was jailed for participating in the Quit India Movement . He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1946 as a Congress party representative . Reddy became the deputy chief minister of Andhra State in 1953 and the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 . He was a union cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi from 1964 to 1967 and Lok Sabha Speaker from 1967 to 1969 . He later retired from active politics but returned in 1975, responding to Jayaprakash Narayan's call for "Total Revolution" against the Indira Gandhi Government . </P>

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