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Dew Sharman

Surinamese doctor and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Dewanchandrebhose Sharman is a Surinamese doctor and politician. He is a member of the National Assembly for the Progressive Reform Party (VHP). In 2015, he was first elected to the National Assembly by preferential votes. In 2020, Sharman was elected Vice Chairman of the National Assembly in an uncontested election.

Editorial summary

“Dew Sharman” enters the record as surinamese doctor and politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sharman, Surinamese and doctor can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sharman, Surinamese and doctor.
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Why this record matters

“Dew Sharman” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sharman, Surinamese and doctor provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2020.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dew Sharman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.