Ismail al-Azhari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sudanese President
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Place of Birth: Omdurman, Khartoum, Sudan
About Ismail al-Azhari
- Ismail al-Azhari (Saiyid) (October 20, 1900 – August 26, 1969) (Arabic: ??????? ????????) was a Sudanese nationalist and political figure.
- He served as the first Prime Minister of Sudan between 1954 and 1956, and as President of Sudan from 1965 until he was overthrown by Gaafar Nimeiry in 1969.He received his early education in Wad Madani.
- He joined the Gordon College in 1917 but he did not complete his education there.
- He worked at Atbara and Omdurman primary schools, then he went on to study at the American University of Beirut and he returned there in 1930.
- He was appointed by the Gordon College and he founded the Association of Arts and Correspondence.
- When the Graduates Conference was established he was elected as Secretary-General in 1937.
- He led several parties and civil rights movements, and one of the most important of those parties that had called for the Union with Egypt in the face of calls for independence of Sudan, the Umma Party Presentation of the formation of the Consultative Council of Northern Sudan and the Legislative Assembly.
- He was president of the National Unionist Party (now the Democratic Unionist Party) when the unionist parties united under his leadership.
- In 1954 he was elected prime minister from within the parliament and under the influence of the growing sense of the need for independence of Sudan and before the union discussion with Egypt.
- With the support of the independent movement, he submitted the proposal to declare independence to parliament.
- He assumed the post of president of the Council of Sovereignty after the revolution of October 1964 during the Second Democracy.
- He was arrested during the May 1969 coup in Cooper's prison and when his health declined, he was taken to hospital until he died.
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