Jafar Abu al-Timman (born 1881-1945) was an Iraqi politician.
Biography
Born in
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
, he was the leader of a political group that opposed the
British administration of Iraq in 1919–1920. He fled to Iran, then returned to Iraq after
Faisal I
Faisal I bin Al-Hussein bin Ali Al-Hashemi ( ar, فيصل الأول بن الحسين بن علي الهاشمي, ''Faysal el-Evvel bin al-Ḥusayn bin Alī el-Hâşimî''; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria ...
was proclaimed as
King of Iraq
The king of Iraq ( ar, ملك العراق, ''Malik al-‘Irāq'') was Iraq's head of state and monarch from 1921 to 1958. He served as the head of the Iraqi monarchy—the Hashemite dynasty. The king was addressed as His Majesty (صاحب ال ...
. He served as a chairman of the
Iraqi National Party in 1922. He served as Minister of Commerce in the second cabinet of
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani. He allied with
Yasin al-Hashimi,
Naji al-Suwaidi, and the
National Brotherhood Party in 1930. He supported
Bakr Sedqi's
military coup in 1936 and served as
Minister of Finance
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 cabinet of
Hikmat Sulayman
Hikmat Sulayman (1889 – 16 June 1964) ( ar, حكمت سليمان) was prime minister of Iraq from October 30, 1936 to August 12, 1937 at the head of a Party of National Brotherhood government.
Sulayman, of Iraqi Arab, Circassianİsmail Hâm ...
from 29 October 1936 until he resigned in June 1937. He served as chairman of Baghdad Commerce Chamber from 1935 to 1945.
References
1881 births
Year of death missing
Politicians from Baghdad
Finance ministers of Iraq
Government ministers of Iraq
20th-century Iraqi politicians
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