Avetik Sahakyan

Avetik Sahakian
Աւետիք Սահակեան
Chairman of the Parliament of Armenia
In office
1 August 1918 – 1 August 1919
Preceded bySerop Zakaryan
Succeeded byAvetis Aharonian
Minister of Welfare (Public Assistance) and Labour of Armenia
In office
10 August 1919 – 31 October 1920
Preceded byHovhannes Ter-Mikaelyan
Succeeded byArtashes Babalian
Personal details
Born1863
Jalal-oghli, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Stepanavan, Armenia)
Died1933 (aged 69–70)
Lebanon
Political partyArmenian Revolutionary Federation

Avetik Hovhannesi Sahakian (Armenian: Աւետիք Սահակեան; 1863–1933), also known as Father Abraham, was an Armenian politician, the Parliamentary President (speaker) of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918–19,[1] the social security minister and member of ARF Dashnaktsutiun Eastern Bureau. He was also known as agricultural scientist.[2]