Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh Ali al-Hiazi al-Obeidi is an Iraqi politician, born on June 3, 1901 in
Abu Ghraib
Abu Ghraib (; ar, أبو غريب, ''Abū Ghurayb'') is a city in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq, located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 189,000 (2003). The old road t ...
.
Life
He entered politics in 1922, when he entered the elections of the House of Representatives and won the Diwaniya Brigade.
He served as Minister of Justice in the Ministry of Hikmat Suleiman as a replacement for
Salih Jabr
Sayyid Salih Jabr ( ar, سيد صالح جبر; 1896–1957) was an Iraqi statesman who served as the prime minister of Iraq from March 1947 to January 1948. He was the first Shi'ite to become prime minister.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Salih atten ...
, who resigned in 1937.
He also briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1941 in the third ministry of Rashid al-Kilani, as well as minister of justice in the fourth ministry of Rashid al-Kilani the same year.
After the May Revolution of 1941, he was imprisoned on 2 May 1942 and released on 16 June 1947.
He returned to the position of
finance minister
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
in the ministry of
Mustafa al-Omari for a short time in November 1952 in place of the dismissed minister Ibrahim Shabandar,
and then continued his position in the ministry of Noureddine Mahmoud.
Literature
His notes were published in 1985 by the examination and commentary of Dr. Mohammed Hussein al Zubaidi.
In 2015, the research of the master student Mahd Talib in the College of Education - University of Qadisiyah entitled: "Ali Mahmoud Shaykh Ali and his role in the history of Iraq 1901–1958".
References
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Iraqi memoirists
1901 births
Foreign ministers of Iraq
Finance ministers of Iraq
1968 deaths
20th-century memoirists