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The Senate of Iraq (Majlis al-A`yan) 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.[1] The Senate remained in existence until the 1958 revolution.
Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Yusuf al-Suwaydi | July 1925 | 2 November 1929 | [2][3][4][5] |
Mohammad Al-Sadr | 2 November 1929 | February 1937 | [6][7][8][9] |
Muhammed Ridha al-Shabibi | 27 February 1937 | August 1937 | [10][8][11] |
Mohammad Al-Sadr | December 1937 | December 1943 | [9][12] |
Jamil Al-Madfai | December 1943 | December 1944 | [13][14] |
Salih Bashayan | ? | ? | |
Nuri Al-Said | July 1945 | 21 November 1946 | [15] |
Mohammad Al-Sadr | June 1948 | 1948 | [9] |
Nuri Al-Said | 1948 | 6 January 1949 | [13] |
Jamil Al-Madfai | ? - 1952 | January 1953 | [13][14][16] |
Jamil Al-Madfai | September 1953 | 1957 - ? | [13][17] |
Abdul Hadi Chalabi | ? - 1958 | 14 July 1958 | [18] |
Members of the Iraqi Senate included:
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