monarch predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place children nationality office birth_date order term_start spouse image article_title term_end name occupation
ghazi faisal ii jamil al-madfai nuri al-said -lrb- twice -rrb- jamil al-madfai tawfiq al-suwaidi abdul-wahab mirjan 3 march 1969 mosul , ottoman empire beirut , lebanon three : nizar , selwa and nameer iraqi prime minister of iraq 1886 15th , 34th & 43rd august 27 , 1934 nazik tahseen ali al-ayoubi . jpg ali jawdat al-aiyubi
 march february 5 , 1950 june 20 , 1957 -- december 4 15 , 1957 , 1935 december 10 , 1949 -- ali jawdat al-ayubi statesman and diplomat
ali jawdat al-aiyubi

ali jawdat al-ayubi -lrb- علي جودت الأيوبي , 1886 - march 3 , 1969 -rrb- was prime minister of iraq 1934 -- 1935 , 1949 -- 1950 , 1957 .
ali jawdat al-ayubi was born in mosul in 1886 while iraq was under ottoman rule .
his father served as a police sergeant , and upon retirement owned a grocery store .
at a young age , ali was dispatched by his parents from mosul on a ten-day boat trip to baghdad , where he stayed in the care of an aunt and attended the rashidiyeh military school .
upon graduation , he went by camel and ship to istanbul where he attended the military college with other iraqis , including jaafar al-askari , nuri al-said , jamil al-madfai and yaseen al-hashimi .
with these latter , he fought during the first world war throughout the arab lands for independence from ottoman rule .
upon establishment in 1921 of the kingdom of iraq , with king feisal the first as its ruler , each served in turn in positions of leadership .
ali jawdat served as military governor for aleppo and homs , during the short-lived tenure of the first arab kingdom in syria , under king faisal , and thereafter served in turn as governor of hilla , nejef , kerbela , mosul , diyala , and basra and variously as minister of finance , minister of the interior , foreign minister and iraqi ambassador to the court of st. james , france and washington , where he established the first iraqi embassy in the us .
he served three times as prime minister -lrb- 1934 , 1949 and 1957 -rrb- , successively under king faisal the first , king ghazi the first and king faisal the second .
the name `` jawdat '' was given to him by his teachers and colleagues , and it means `` quality '' in arabic .
an ardent arab nationalist , he espoused an inclusionary , non-sectarian vision of iraq , encompassing its various ethnicities , sects and tribes .
he strove to achieve greater autonomy from the influence of great britain , as embodied principally in the acquiescent behavior of the regent , abdul ilah and occasionally of his friend nuri al said , and once resigned as finance minister in nuri pasha 's cabinet in protest at a treaty of cooperation with great britain to which nuri agreed .
the iraqi monarchy , represented by king feisal the second , was toppled in 1958 in a bloody coup led by abdel karim qasim , driven by months of intensive radio propaganda by egyptian president nasser 's voice of the arabs .
ali jawdat survived this coup , but nuri al-said and other leaders did not .
while military governor of aleppo and homs in 1919 , he met and married nazik tahseen , and they had three children , nizar , selwa and nameer .
ali jawdat lived simply and modestly , and was recognized for his integrity , courage and dedication to arab nationalism .
he died in beirut on march 3 , 1969 , shortly after completing his memoire .
