What is Rajendra Prasad?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] | office = 1st [[President of India]] | image = Rajendra Prasad (Indian President), signed image for Walter Nash (NZ Prime Minister), 1958 (16017609534).jpg | predecessor = ''Position established'' <br/> [[Chakravarti Rajagopalachari]] as the [[Governor General of India]] | primeminister = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] | successor = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]] | vicepresident = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]] | footnotes = | party = [[Indian National Congress]] | nationality = [[India]]n | birth_date = {{birth date|1884|12|03|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Ziradei]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]] {{small|(present-day [[Bihar]], India)}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1963|02|28|1884|12|03|df=y}} | death_cause = [[Heart Attack]] | death_place = [[Patna]], [[Bihar]], India | spouse = {{marriage|Rajavanshi Devi Prasad|1896|1962|end=d.}} | alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]] | awards = [[Bharat Ratna]] (1962) | term_start = 26 January 1950 | term_end = 13 May 1962 }} '''Rajendra Prasad''' was the [[List of Presidents of India|first]] [[President of India]]. He was the president from 1950 to 1962.<ref>[http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/former.html The President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee]. Presidentofindia.nic.in. Retrieved on 12 December 2013.</ref> He was an Indian political leader and lawyer.Prasad joined the [[Indian National Congress]] during the [[Indian Independence Movement]]. He became a major leader from [[Bihar]]. He is a supporter of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. Prasad was put in jail by Britishers during the [[Salt Satyagraha]] of 1931. He was also put in jail during the [[Quit India movement]] of 1942. == First President of India == Prasad served as Minister of Food and Agriculture in the central government, after the 1946 elections. After indep