death_date children nationality birth_date term_end restingplace alma_mater death_place imagesize order term_start spouse image name occupation relations birth_place party religion native_name article_title
29 august 1984 6 children , including : bachir gemayel amine gemayel lebanese 06 november 1905 1984 bikfaya saint joseph university bikfaya , lebanon 200px member of parliament for beirut 1960 genevieve gemayel pierre-gemayel-face-photo . jpg pierre gemayel pharmacist grandsons : pierre amine gemayel samy gemayel nadim gemayel bikfaya , ottoman lebanon , ottoman empire kataeb party maronite christian بيار الجميّل pierre gemayel

pierre gemayel

sheikh pierre gemayel -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 6 november 1905 -- 29 august 1984 -rrb- -lrb- last name also spelt jmayyel , jemayyel or al-jumayyil , sheikh is an honorific title in arab countries -rrb- , was a lebanese political leader .
he is remembered as the founder of the kataeb party -lrb- also known as the phalangist party -rrb- , as a parliamentary powerbroker , and as the father of bachir gemayel and amine gemayel , both of whom were elected to the presidency of the republic in his lifetime .
he opposed the french mandate over lebanon in the late 1930s and early 1940s , and advocated an independent state , free from foreign control .
he was known for his deft political maneuvering , which led him to take positions which were seen by supporters as pragmatic , but by opponents as contradictory , or even hypocritical .
although publicly sympathetic to the palestinian cause , he later changed his position due to palestinian support of the lebanese national movement and its calls to end the national pact and establish non-sectarian democracy .
