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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.

Presidents of the Senate

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][10]
Muhammed Ridha al-Shabibi 27 February 1937 August 1937 [11][8][12]
Mohammad Al-Sadr December 1937 December 1943 [9][13]
Jamil Al-Madfai December 1943 December 1944 [14][15]
Salih Bashayan ? ?
Nuri Al-Said July 1945 21 November 1946 [16]
Mohammad Al-Sadr June 1948 1948 [9]
Nuri Al-Said 1948 6 January 1949 [14]
Jamil Al-Madfai ? - 1952 January 1953 [14][15][17]
Jamil Al-Madfai September 1953 1957 - ? [14][18]
Abdul Hadi Chalabi ? - 1958 14 July 1958 [19]

Members

Members of the Iraqi Senate included:

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Report by His Britannic Majesty's Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Iraq 1925". HathiTrust.
  3. ^ "Report by His Britannic Majesty's Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Iraq 1927-28". HathiTrust.
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  6. ^ "Report by His Britannic Majesty's Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Iraq 1929". HathiTrust.
  7. ^ "Report by His Britannic Majesty's Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Iraq 1931". HathiTrust.
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  15. ^ a b "The Petroleum Times". Petroleum Times. January 5, 1952 – via Google Books.
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  17. ^ "The Middle East and North Africa". 1953.
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  19. ^ Blattner, Elwyn James; Blattner, James Elwyn (January 5, 1958). "Who's who in U.A.R and the Near East". Paul Barbey Press – via Google Books.
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  22. ^ Who's Who in Iraq, 1936, p. 587
  23. ^ Dougherty, Beth K.; Ghareeb, Edmund A., eds. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Scarecrow Press. p. 433. ISBN 978-0-8108-7942-3.
  24. ^ Dougherty, Beth K.; Ghareeb, Edmund A., eds. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Scarecrow Press. p. 521. ISBN 978-0-8108-7942-3.
  25. ^ Kristian Girling (2017). The Chaldean Catholic Church: Modern History, Ecclesiology and Church-State Relations. Taylor & Francis. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-351-70674-2.
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  29. ^ Dougherty, Beth K.; Ghareeb, Edmund A., eds. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Scarecrow Press. p. 406. ISBN 978-0-8108-7942-3.
  30. ^ Mohammed (1990), p. 178
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