Ruler · 1923 – 2005

Devan Nair

Lived 1923 – 2005; politician. President of Singapore (Singapore), 1981 – 1985.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1923 – 2005; 82 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Singapore
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of Singapore

Singapore · the 6th of 13 dated reigns · 1965 – 2023

2 before

Yeoh Ghim Seng1970 – 1971

Benjamin Sheares1971 – 1981

Yeoh Ghim Seng1981

Devan Nair1981 – 1985

Yeoh Ghim Seng1985

Wee Kim Wee1985 – 1993

Ong Teng Cheong1993 – 1999

4 after

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officea second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1981 – 1985 · 4 years · came to it aged 58

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: resigned

After his presidency in 1985, Nair retired from politics and briefly moved to the United States before moving again to live out his final years in Hamilton, Canada, when he died there at the age of 82 of dementia in 2005.

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