Senate of Iraq

The Senate of Iraq (Arabic: مجلس الاعيان; 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.

Iraqi Senators in 1933

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]
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 [ar]	December 1944	December 1945	[15]
Nuri Al-Said	December 1945	21 November 1946	[16]
Mohammad Al-Sadr	June 1948	1948	[9]
Nuri Al-Said	1948	6 January 1949	[13]
Jamil Al-Madfai	? - 1952	January 1953	[13][14][17]
Jamil Al-Madfai	September 1953	1957 - ?	[13][18]
Abdul Hadi Chalabi	? - 1958	14 July 1958	[19]

Members

Members of the Iraqi Senate included:

• Menahem Saleh Daniel. Appointed 1925, representing Iraqi Jews. Remained member until 1932, when he was succeeded by his son.^[20][21]
• Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi. Appointed 1925, remained member until 1929.^[22]
• Mawlud Mukhlis. Appointed 1925. Appointed vice-president of the Senate in 1936, though resigned in 1937 when he was elected Baghdad deputy to Parliament. He later returned to the Senate.^[23]
• Muhammad al-Sadr. Appointed 1925, remaining until his death in 1956. President of the Senate from 1929 until 1944, with the exception of 1937.^[24]
• Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas. Appointed 1925, representing the Chaldean Catholic Church.^[25] Remained member until his death in 1947, when he was succeeded by Yousef VII Ghanima.
• Rustum Haydar, appointed 1931.^[26]
• Ezra Menachem Daniel (1874-1952). Appointed member 1932, replacing his father; remained on the Senate until his death in 1952.^[21]
• Abdul Hadi Chalabi, appointed 1947.
• Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi, appointed 1948–9.^[27]
• Tawfiq Wahbi.^[28]
• Nureddin Mahmud, member from January 1953 to 1958.^[29]
• Sheikh Ahmad A. Yaseen AlAmer, appointed Mayor of Basra and Al Zubair province and Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950|^[30]

See also

• Kingdom of Iraq
• Chamber of Deputies of Iraq