Hashim al-Atassi's Leadership

Hashim al-Atassi

Born in Homs in 1875, Hashim al-Atassi was a prominent statesman and leader of the National Bloc. He guided Syria through crucial periods of constitutional drafting, led the 1936 independence treaty negotiations in Paris, and served as president, helping secure full independence.

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Year	Hashim al-Atassi
1875	Birth of Hashim al-Atassi (Period: January 11, 1875 (some sources state 1873), Location: Homs, Syria)
1893	Service as an Ottoman Administrator (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1893–End of World War I, Location: Ottoman Empire, Beirut Vilayet, Syria, Anatolia)
1914	World War I (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions (Gallipoli, Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai, Palestine, Arabia, etc.))
1919	Elected Chairman of the Syrian National Congress (Age: 44 years old, Period: December 1919, Location: Damascus, Syria)
1920	Declaration of Syrian Independence and Establishment of the Kingdom of Syria (Age: 45 years old, Period: March 8, 1920, Location: Damascus, Syria) Assumed Office as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Syria (Hashim al-Atassi, Age: 45 years old, Period: May–July 1920, Location: Damascus, Syria)
1925	Exile to Arwad Island by French Mandate Authorities (Age: 49 years old, Period: Circa 1925–1926, Location: Arwad Island off the coast of Syria) Suppression of Nationalists after the Great Syrian Revolt (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1925–1927, Location: Syria, Damascus, Arwad Island, etc.)
1928	Assumed Office as Chairman of the Constituent Assembly (Hashim al-Atassi, Age: 53 years old, Period: August–September 1928, Location: Damascus, Syria)
1930	Continued Independence Movement as Leader of the National Bloc (Age: 54 years old, Period: 1930s, Location: Syria, Damascus, Homs) Suspension of the Constituent Assembly by French Authorities (Age: 55 years old, Period: May 1930, Location: Damascus, Syria)
1936	Negotiations for the Franco-Syrian Independence Treaty (Age: 61 years old, Period: March–September 1936, Location: Paris, France, Syria) Assumed Office as the First President of the Syrian Republic (Hashim al-Atassi, Age: 61 years old, Period: December 21, 1936–July 7, 1939, Location: Damascus, Syria)
1939	World War II (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Europe, North Africa, Asia-Pacific, etc. (no combat occurred within Turkey))
1946	Political Activities after Syrian Independence (Age: 70 years old, Period: 1946–1949, Location: Damascus, Homs, Syria)
1949	Re-assumed Office as President of Syria (Hashim al-Atassi, Age: 74 years old, Period: December 1949–December 1951, Location: Damascus, Syria)
1951	Military Coup by Adib Shishakli (Age: 76 years old, Period: December 1951, Location: Damascus, Syria)
1954	Return to the Presidency after the Collapse of the Shishakli Regime (Age: 79 years old, Period: February 28, 1954–September 6, 1955, Location: Damascus, Syria)
1958	Retirement from Politics after the Establishment of the United Arab Republic (Hashim al-Atassi, Age: 82 years old, Period: 1958, Location: Syria)
1960	Death of Hashim al-Atassi (Age: 85 years old, Period: December 5, 1960 (some sources state December 6), Homs, Syria)
Unknown	Marriage (Hashim al-Atassi, Personal Name of Spouse Not Confirmed, Period: Details unknown, Location: Details unknown)

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Ottoman Empire	Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid Mehmed Vahdeddin Han bin Abdülmecid İsmail Enver Mehmed Talat Ahmet Cemal Mustafa Kemal Mustafa İsmet Mustafa Fevzi
Syrian nationalist movement	Faisal I Sultan al-Atrash Ibrahim Hananu Hashim al-Atassi Shukri al-Quwatli Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar Bishara al-Khuri Emile Eddé Riyad al-Sulh Antoun Saadeh
Palestinian national movement	Amin al-Husayni Musa al-Husayni Raghib al-Nashashibi Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Chaim Weizmann David Ben-Gurion Zeev Jabotinsky Golda Meir Vladimir Jabotinsky Moshe Sharett

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