Senate of Iraq
The Senate of Iraq was the unelected upper house of the bicameral parliament established by the Mandatory Iraq's 1925 constitution. There were around twenty Senators, appointed for eight years by the King of Iraq. The Senate remained in existence until the 1958 revolution.
Presidents of the Senate
Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
Yusuf al-Suwaydi | July 1925 | 2 November 1929 | |
Mohammad Al-Sadr | 2 November 1929 | February 1937 | |
Muhammed Ridha al-Shabibi | 27 February 1937 | August 1937 | |
Mohammad Al-Sadr | December 1937 | December 1943 | |
Jamil Al-Madfai | December 1943 | December 1944 | |
Salih Bashayan | ? | ? | |
Nuri Al-Said | July 1945 | 21 November 1946 | |
Mohammad Al-Sadr | June 1948 | 1948 | |
Nuri Al-Said | 1948 | 6 January 1949 | |
Jamil Al-Madfai | ? - 1952 | January 1953 | |
Jamil Al-Madfai | September 1953 | 1957 - ? | |
Abdul Hadi Chalabi | ? - 1958 | 14 July 1958 |
Members
Members of the Iraqi Senate included:- Menahem Saleh Daniel. Appointed 1925, representing Iraqi Jews. Remained member until 1932, when he was succeeded by his son.
- Mawlud Mukhlis. Appointed 1925. Appointed vice-president of the Senate in 1936, though resigned in 1937 when he was elected Baghdad deputy to Parliament. He later returned to the Senate.
- Muhammad al-Sadr. Appointed 1925, remaining until his death in 1956. President of the Senate from 1929 until 1944, with the exception of 1937.
- Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas. Appointed 1925, representing the Chaldean Catholic Church. Remained member until his death in 1947, when he was succeeded by Yousef VII Ghanima.
- Rustum Haydar, appointed 1931.
- Ezra Menachem Daniel. Appointed member 1932, replacing his father; remained on the Senate until his death in 1952.
- Abdul Hadi Chalabi, appointed 1947.
- Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi, appointed 1948–9.
- Tawfiq Wahbi.
- Nureddin Mahmud, member from January 1953 to 1958.
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