Sa'dun Hammadi
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Sa'dun Hammadi | |
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33rd Prime Minister of Iraq 12th Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq | |
In office 23 March 1991 – 13 September 1991 | |
President | Saddam Hussein |
Preceded by | Saddam Hussein |
Succeeded by | Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi |
Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch | |
In office 1994 – May 2001 | |
In office June 1982 – September 1991 | |
In office 2 February 1962 – 25 September 1963 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 22 June 1930 Karbala, Iraq |
Died | 14 March 2007 (aged 76) Germany |
Political party | Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Alma mater | University of Damascus |
Sa'dun Hammadi (22 June 1930 – 14 March 2007; Arabic: سعدون حمادي) was briefly Prime Minister of Iraq under President Saddam Hussein from March until September 1991. He succeeded Hussein, who had previously been prime minister in addition to being president, but was forced out due to his reformist views.
Hammadi was born in Karbala and was a Shi'ite. He joined the Ba'ath Party during the 1940s. In addition, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1956.
Hammadi previously served a stint as Iraqi Oil Minister, an important portfolio during a time of burgeoning economic progress, and served as Foreign Minister from 1974 until 1983, surviving Saddam's takeover in 1979. He also served as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Iraq from 1983 until 1990 and from 1996 until the Fall of Baghdad in 2003.
During the 1991 Iraq rebellion Hammadi, a Shi'ite in the very top circle of the party, was appointed Prime Minister, likely due to placate Shi'ite Iraqi concerns over political dominance by a Sunni Arab clique from Tikrit. He was subsequently forced out the same year, but was returned to his position as Speaker in 1996.
Hammadi was later imprisoned at a prison camp in Iraq after the invasion. In February 2004, after nine months in the custody of the Americans, he was released and subsequently resettled in Qatar while seeking medical treatment abroad.
He died in a German hospital from liver cancer on 14 March 2007.
External links[]
- "Saddam's ally, former Iraqi Baath party leader and prime minister, dies". International Herald Tribune. 16 March 2007. Archived from the original on 20 March 2007.
- 1930 births
- 2007 deaths
- Ba'athist rulers
- Deaths from cancer in Germany
- Deaths from leukemia
- Iraqi emigrants to Qatar
- Iraqi Shia Muslims
- Members of the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
- People from Karbala
- Prime Ministers of Iraq
- Speakers of the Council of Representatives of Iraq
- University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
- Heads of government who were later imprisoned
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