Jamil Mardam Bey

Jamil Mardam Bey
جميل مردم بك
10th & 21st Prime Minister of Syria
In office
December 21, 1936 – February 18, 1939
Preceded byAta Bay al-Ayyubi
Succeeded byLutfi al-Haffar
In office
December 29, 1946 – December 17, 1948
Preceded byKhalid al-Azm
Succeeded byKhalid al-Azm
Minister of Finance
In office
June 1932 – May 1933
Preceded byTawfiq Shamia
Succeeded byShakir Al-Shabani
Minister of Defence
In office
5 April 1945 – 26 August 1945
Preceded byNasuhi al-Bukhari
Succeeded byKhalid al-Azm
In office
23 August 1948 – 12 December 1948
Preceded byAhmad al-Sharabati
Succeeded byKhalid al-Azm
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
19 August 1943 – 24 August 1945
Preceded byNaim Antaki
Succeeded byMikhail Ilyan
In office
1947–1948
Preceded byNaim Antaki
Succeeded byMuhsin al-Barazi
Personal details
Born1895
Damascus, Ottoman Syria
DiedMarch 30, 1960(1960-03-30) (aged 66–67)
Cairo, United Arab Republic
Political partyNational Bloc
SpouseSafwat Sami Pasha Mardam Bey

Jamil Mardam Bey (Ottoman Turkish: جميل مردم بك; Turkish: Cemil Mardam Bey;‎ 1895–1960), was a Syrian politician. He was born in Damascus to a prominent aristocratic family of Turkish origins. He is a descendant of the Ottoman general, statesman and Grand Vizier Lala Mustafa Pasha and the penultimate Mamluk ruler Qansuh al Ghuri. He studied at the school of Political Science in Paris and it was there that his political career started.