Dawood Al-Haidari

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Dawood Al-Haidari was an Iraqi politician born in Erbil in 1886 and died in Istanbul in 1965. He studied law in Istanbul, worked for the Turkish Ministry of Education, and served in the Turkish Army during World War I. After Iraq’s founding, he pursued a long public career, starting as judicial inspector at the Ministry of Justice in 1921, then secretary of the royal court in 1922, and a member of the Constituent Assembly for Erbil in 1924. He repeatedly served in Parliament and held the post of Minister of Justice in 1928 and again in 1929. From 1930 to 1933 he represented Erbil in Parliament and worked as a lawyer for the British Oil Company. He joined the People's Party, opposed the 1926 treaty, and during the Rashid Ali movement he traveled to Amman and Jerusalem, returning with Prince Abdullah who named him Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran. In 1942 he became Minister of State and briefly Acting Foreign Minister; he later served as Minister Plenipotentiary to London. In 1945 he became a senator and held cabinet roles, including work with the Ministry of Social Affairs. He left Iraq in 1958 after the revolution and lived abroad until his death in 1965.