Ḥammādī, Saʻdūn

Sa'dun Hammadi (22 June 1930 – 14 March 2007; Arabic: سعدون حمادي) was an Iraqi politician and economist who held various positions in the Iraqi state, most notably as the Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1983, and later as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Iraq from 1996 until 2003 invasion of Iraq. Hammadi began his political career in the late 1940s, when he joined the Ba'ath Party. He rose to prominence after the seizure of power in Iraq by the Ba'ath Party. He served as the Minister of Agrarian Reform, head of the Iraq National Oil Company, and the Minister of Oil. In 1974, Hammadi became Iraq’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position he held until 1983, thus surviving Saddam Hussein's takeover of power. He was briefly the prime minister of Iraq under President Saddam Hussein from March until September 1991. Saddam had previously been prime minister in addition to being president, but was forced out due to his reformist views and was made the Speaker of the National Assembly in 1996 and continued to be in position until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His last official position was President of the Iraqi National Assembly until the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, which overthrew the Ba'ath Party