Émile Eddé

Émile Eddé (5 May 1886 in Damascus, Ottoman Syria – 28 September 1949 in Sawfar) (Arabic: إميل أده‎) was a Maronite Lebanese political figure.

Émile Eddé

Career

During the period of the French Mandate in which the Republic of Lebanon functioned under the authority of a French High Commissioner, Eddé served as the speaker of the Parliament from October 1924 to January 1925[1], prime minister of Lebanon from 11 October 1929 to 25 March 1930 and as the president of Lebanon from 1936 to 1941. On 11 November 1943, following the act of the Lebanese legislature in abolishing the Mandate, the High Commissioner installed Eddé as President. Ten days later, however, under pressure from France's other Allies in World War II, the French removed Eddé from office and restored the government of Bechara El Khoury on 21 November. [2], and briefly in 1943.[3] He also founded and led the Lebanese National Bloc party. He was succeeded as party leader by his son Raymond Eddé.

References

1. (in Arabic)Republic of Lebanon - House of Representatives History
2. James Barr, A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012) pp244-250
3. "Profiles of Lebanon's presidents since independence". Lebanon Wire. 25 May 2008. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.

Political offices
Preceded by Bechara El Khoury	Prime Minister of Lebanon 1929–1930	Succeeded by Auguste Adib Pacha
Preceded by Habib Pacha Es-Saad	President of Lebanon 1936–1941	Succeeded by Pierre-Georges Arlabosse
Preceded by Bechara El Khoury	President of Lebanon 1943	Succeeded by Bechara El Khoury