Fares al-Khoury

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Fares al-Khoury فارس الخوري
Prime Minister of Syria
In office October 14, 1944 – October 1, 1945
Preceded by	Saadallah al-Jabiri
Succeeded by	Saadallah al-Jabiri
In office November 3, 1954 – February 13, 1955
Preceded by	Said al-Ghazzi
Succeeded by	Sabri al-Assali
Born	1877 Hasbayya, Lebanon
Died	1962 (aged 75) Damascus, Syria
Political party	National Bloc
Religion	Christian

Fares al-Khoury (Arabic: فارس الخوري‎) (1877-1962) was an Ottoman, then Syrian Arab Christian politician. He was born in Hasbayya (what is today modern Lebanon) and studied at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He started his career as an instructor at AUB and became involved in al-Fatat, the leading anti-Ottoman movement, after its creation in Paris in 1911.

He became the Christian member of the Ottoman Parliament representing Damascus in 1908.

Fares al-Khoury, as president of the Security Council at the UN when Syria was a rotating council member in the 1940s

He was minister of Finances in the short-lived Hashemite Kingdom of Syria in 1920, then, during the State, then Republic of Syria under French Mandate, he joined Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar [1] in 1925 to found the People's Party, of which he became vice-president. Minister of Education from April to July 1926, he was elected member of the Syrian Constituent Assembly in 1928, then elected to the Syrian Parliament in 1932, reelected in 1936 (and president of the Parliament till 1939) and 1943 (and again president of the Parliament till 1944). He was a member of the Syrian delegation that negotiated the Franco-Syrian Treaty in Paris in 1936.

He became Prime Minister from October 14, 1944 till October 1, 1945, then again president of the parliament till the military coup of Husni al-Za'im who dissolved it in April 1949. After free elections in October 1954, he returned as Prime Minister from October 25, 1954 till February 13, 1955 when his pro-Western government, hostile to a union with Egypt, was toppled by the parliament.

Fares al-Khoury died in 1962, one year after the dissolution of the United Arab Republic between Egypt and Syria (1958-1961) during which he was an active political opponent.

v • d • e Prime Ministers of Syria since 1920 Kingdom of Syria (1920) al-Rikabi • H. al-Atassi* • al-Durubi • al-Ulshi French Mandate of Syria (1920-1939) H. al-Azm • al-Hasani • A. al-Ayyubi • Mardam Bey • al-Haffar • al-Bukhari Syrian Arab Republic (1939-1958) K. al-Azm • al-Hakim • al-Barazi • al-Ulshi • al-Jabiri • al-Khoury • al-Jabiri • K. al-Azm* • Mardam Bey • K. al-Azm • al-Za'im • al-Barazi • H. al-Atassi • al-Kudsi • K. al-Azm • al-Kudsi • K. al-Azm • al-Hakim • al-Khatib • al-Dawalibi • Selu • Shishakli • al-Assali • al-Ghazzi • al-Khoury • al-Assali • al-Ghazzi • al-Assali United Arab Republic (Chairmen of the Executive Council of the Syria Region) (1958-1961) Kuhala • Serraj Syrian Arab Republic (Sessionist Period) (1961-1963) al-Kuzbari • al-Nuss • al-Dawalibi • al-Azma • K. al-Azm Syrian Arab Republic (Baath Party Period) (1961-1963) al-Bitar • al-Hafiz • al-Bitar • al-Hafiz • Zuaiyin • al-Bitar • Zuaiyin • N. al-Atassi • al-Assad • Kleifawi • M. al-Ayyubi • Kleifawi • al-Halabi • al-Kasm • Zuabi • Mero • al-Otari * acting

v • d • e Speakers of the Parliament of Syria since 1919 al-Atassi* • Muayyad • al-Atassi • al-Khoury • al-Khoury • al-Jabiri • al-Khoury • al-Khoury • Kikhia • al-Dawalibi • al-Kudsi • al-Kuzbari • al-Kudsi • al-Hawrani • Sadat† • Ghazzi • al-Atrash • al-Khatib • al-Yusufi • al-Halabi • al-Halabi • Hadid • Zuabi • Zuabi • Kaddoura • Kaddoura • Kaddoura • Kaddoura • al-Otari • al-Abrash • al-Abrash *president of the Syrian National Congress     †within the UAR

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