Vahan Papazian ( hy, Վահան Փափազյան; 1876–1973), also known by his

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Goms (Կոմս) was an Armenian doctor, politician, political activist who was one of the leaders of the

Armenian national liberation movement The Armenian national movement ( hy, Հայ ազգային-ազատագրական շարժում ''Hay azgayin-azatagrakan sharzhum'') included social, cultural, but primarily political and military movements that reached their height during Worl ...

. He was the younger brother of

Vrtanes Papazian Vrtanes Mesrop Papazian ( hy, Վրթանես Մեսրոպի Փափազյան; 1866–1920), was an Armenian writer, public-political and cultural activist, literary critic, editor, literature historian, teacher and translator. Biography Vrtanes ...

. He was born in

Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quri Chay, Quru River valley in Iran's historic Aze ...

to parents from Van. Papazian became a leading Armenian figure in the Van region in 1903 and in 1908 was elected to the Ottoman parliament from the Van Vilayet. During the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through t ...

, he managed to escape to the Caucasus and died in

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. From 1942 to 1945, he was a member of the Armenian National Council, established in

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with the support of

Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Ernst Rosenberg ( – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German Nazi theorist and ideologue. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart and he held several important posts in the Nazi government. He was the head o ...

. Papazian was fielded by the ARF candidate for the Armenian Orthodox seat in the

Metn Matn ( ar, قضاء المتن, '), sometimes spelled Metn (or preceded by the article El, as in El Matn), is a district ('' qadaa'') in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The district capital is ...

constituency in the 1951 Lebanese general election. He was included in the pro-government Constitutional List. He obtained 10,186 votes (out of 22,904 votes cast in the constituency), and was defeated by Dikran Tosbath.Messerlian, Zaven. ''Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934-2009''. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 114-117

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Papazian, Vahan 1876 births 1973 deaths Armenian nationalists People from Tabriz Armenian Revolutionary Federation politicians Lebanese politicians Lebanese people of Armenian descent Iranian people of Armenian descent Armenians from the Ottoman Empire