Salih Mahdi Ammash

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Salih Mahdi Ammash
صالح مهدي عماش
Vice President of Iraq
In office
April 1970 – December 1971
PresidentAhmed Hassan al-Bakr
Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch
In office
11 November 1963 – September 1971
Personal details
Born1924
Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq
Died30 January 1985(1985-01-30) (aged 60–61)
Helsinki, Finland
Political partyIraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Alma mater and

Salih Mahdi Ammash (Arabic: صالح مهدي عماش‎; 1924 – 30 January 1985) was an Iraqi historian, writer, author, poet and Iraqi Regional Branch politician and Iraqi army officer who sat on the Regional Command from 1963 to 1971.

Life[]

He was born into a peasant family in Baghdad, 1924.[1] Ammash attended the and the .[1] He joined the Ba'ath Party in 1952 and become one of the first military Ba'athists in the Iraqi Regional Branch.[1] Ammash was a member of the Free Officers Movement which toppled the Iraqi monarchy.[1]

Ammash was elected to the Regional Command for three separate terms.[2] He also served as one of the vice presidents of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. His daughter Huda became the first and only female member of the Regional Command on 18 May 2001.[1]

References[]

Citations

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Ghareeb & Dougherty 2004, p. 12.
  2. ^ Devlin 1975, pp. 338–339.

Sources

  • Devlin, John (1975). The Baath Party: a History from its Origins to 1966 (2nd ed.). Hoover Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-8179-6561-7.
  • Ghareeb, Edmund A.; Dougherty, Beth K. (2004). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-4330-1.
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