Abdullah Sallum al-Samarra'i explained

Abdullah Sallum al-Samarra'i
Order:Minister of State
Term Start:31 December 1969
Term End:15 May 1972
Primeminister:Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Order2:Member of the Revolutionary Command Council
Term Start2:November 1969
Term End2:1970
Order1:Minister of Culture and Information
Term Start1:30 July 1968
Term End1:31 December 1969
Primeminister1:Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Predecessor1:Taha Haj Elias
Successor1:Hamid Alwan al-Juburi
Term Start3:1964
Term End3:1970
Birth Date:1932
Birth Place:Samarra, Kingdom of Iraq
Nationality:Iraqi
Party:Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

Abdullah Sallum al-Samarra'i (Arabic: عبد الله سلوم السامرائي; 1932–1996) was an Iraqi Ba'athist politician and leading member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq. He was a member of the Regional Command from 1964 to 1970, when he was expelled.

Biography

He was born in the city of Samarra in 1932 to a lower middle class family. He graduated from Baghdad University with a B.A. and an M.A. in Islamic history. Early on he was an active member of the Independence Party, but became a member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq in 1956. He was an associate of Saddam Hussein since the 1950s.

al-Samarra'i was one of the leading members of the Ba'ath Party following its November 1963 ousting from power, and became a member of the Iraqi Regional Command in 1964. At the 1969 Regional Congress of the Ba'ath Party in Iraq al-Samarra'i was re-elected as a member of the Iraqi Regional Command, and appointed to a seat in the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). However, shortly after he was demoted from his post as Minister of Culture and Information to become Minister of State. The following year, in March 1970, al-Samara'i was removed from his seat in the RCC and the Iraqi Regional Command and became the Iraqi Ambassador to India. Al-Samarra'i was the first victim in a purge against the civilian wing of the party by Hussein.

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