Yasin al-Hashimi

Yasin al-Hashimi
ياسين الهاشمي
Yasin al-Hashimi as Minister of Finance, 1927
Prime Minister of Iraq
In office 24 August 1924 – 26 June 1925
Monarch	Faisal I
Preceded by	Jafar al-Askari
Succeeded by	Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun
In office 17 March 1935 – 30 October 1936
Monarch	Ghazi I
Preceded by	Jamil al-Midfai
Succeeded by	Hikmat Sulayman
Personal details
Born	1884 Baghdad, Baghdad Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died	21 January 1937 (aged 52–53) Beirut, Lebanon
Political party	Party of National Brotherhood (during 2nd term)
Relations	Taha al-Hashimi (brother)
Military service
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire (1914–1918) Arab Kingdom of Syria (1918–1920)  Kingdom of Iraq Kingdom of Iraq (1921–1937)
Branch/service	Ottoman Army Arab Army Royal Iraqi Army
Years of service	1914–1937
Battles/wars	First World War Middle Eastern theatre Franco-Syrian War Battle of Maysalun 1935–1936 Iraqi Shia revolts

Yasin al-Hashimi (born Yasin Hilmi Salman; Arabic: ياسين الهاشمي‎; 1884 – 21 January 1937) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Iraq. Like many of Iraq's early leaders, al-Hashimi served as a military officer during the Ottoman control of the country.^[1] He made his political debut under the government of his predecessor, Jafar al-Askari, and replaced him as prime minister shortly after, in August 1924. Al-Hashimi served for ten months before he was replaced, in turn by Abdul Muhsin al-Sa'dun. Over the next ten years he filled a variety of governmental positions finally returning to the office of prime minister in March 1935. On 30 October 1936, Hashimi became the first Iraqi prime minister to be deposed in a coup, which was led by General Bakr Sidqi and a coalition of ethnic minorities. Unlike al-Askari, who was then his minister of defense, al-Hashimi survived the coup and made his way to Beirut, Lebanon, where he died three months later. His older brother and close ally, Taha al-Hashimi, served as Prime Minister of Iraq in 1941.