List of members of the Syrian National Congress

This is a list of members of the Syrian National Congress. The Congress was held in Damascus in June 1919 after the end of Ottoman rule, to prepare for the reception of the King–Crane Commission and the decision of the future of natural Syria. Sources differ on the number of deputies in the Congress, but it is likely that there were 85 elected deputies representing various regions in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan, most of whom were former deputies of the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies. Additionally, the Congress had 35 tribal chiefs and heads of religious communities. The total number of deputies is thus 120 members. This list includes the names of 97 members, the rest are unknown.

The Congress is the first national legislative body in the modern history of Syria. On March 7, 1920, it declared the independence of the Arab Kingdom of Syria and the installation of Prince Faisal as its king. It also formed a committee to draft the country's first constitution.

The members of the Congress were divided into three main blocs referred to as parties. However, it is unclear whether they constituted official party organizations or just parliamentary blocs. The blocs include the Progress Party, which formed the ruling bloc emanating from the al-Fatat organisation and included about 60 members, the Democratic Party, which represented the main opposition bloc and included about 30 members, in addition to a group of independent members who did not belong to either of the two blocs and are estimated at 20 members.

List of deputies

No.DistrictNameParty 1 Damascus Muhammad Fawzi Pasha al-Azm 2 Damascus Abd al-Rahman Pasha al-Yusuf 3 Damascus Fawzi al-Bakri 4 Damascus Abd al-Qadir al-Khatib Democratic Party 5 Damascus Taj al-Din al-Hasani Democratic Party 6 Damascus Mahmoud al-Baroudi 7 Damascus Ahmad al-Qudmani Democratic Party 8 Damascus Muslim al-Husni 9 Damascus Elias ‘Uwayshiq 10 Damascus Youssef Leniado 11 Aleppo Mar'i Pasha al-Mallah 12 Aleppo Rida al-Rifa‘i 13 Aleppo Saadallah al-Jabiri 14 Aleppo Abd al-Rahman al-Kiyali 15 Aleppo Muhammad al-Mudarris 16 Aleppo Hikmat al-Nayyal 17 Aleppo Rashid al-Mudarris 18 Aleppo Sheikh Nuri al-Jisri 19 Aleppo Salim Janbart 20 Aleppo Theodor Antaki 21 Aleppo Ibrahim Hananu 22 Homs Hashim al-Atasi Progress Party 23 Homs Wasfi al-Atassi 24 Homs Mazhar Raslan 25 Homs Murshid Sama'an 26 Deir ez-Zor Fadel al-‘Aboud 27 Deir ez-Zor Muhammad Nuri al-Fatayih 28 Deir ez-Zor Ibrahim al-Hajj Hussein 29 Nablus Muhammad 'Izzat Darwaza Progress Party 30 Nablus Ibrahim al-Qasim 31 Nablus Adel Zaiter 32 Nablus Amin al-Tamimi 33 Hama Khaled al-Barazi 34 Hama Abd al-Hamid al-Baroudi 35 Hama Abd al-Qadir al-Kilani 36 Beirut Salim Ali Salam 37 Beirut Arif al-Nu‘mani 38 Beirut Jamil Bayhum 39 Beirut Amin Bayhum 40 Beirut George Harfoush 41 Jerusalem Raghib al-Nashashibi 42 Jerusalem Saeed al-Husseini 43 Jerusalem Arif al-Dajani 44 Jerusalem Ya‘qub Farraj 45 Jaffa Raghib al-Dajani 46 Jaffa Youssef al-‘Issa 47 Haifa Rashid al-Hajj Ibrahim 48 Haifa Mu‘in al-Madhi 49 Hebron Ahmad Qadri 50 Hebron Rafiq al-Tamimi 51 Tripoli Rashid Rida 52 Tripoli Tawfiq al-Bisar 53 Tripoli Othman Sultan 54 Tripoli Youssef al-Hakim 55 Tripoli Abd al-Majid al-Maghribi 56 Latakia Muhammad al-Khayr 57 Latakia Muhammad al-Shuraiqi 58 Latakia Munah Haroun 59 Latakia Subhi al-Tawil 60 Sidon and Tyre Rida al-Solh 61 Sidon and Tyre Riyad al-Solh 62 Sidon and Tyre Afif al-Solh 63 Antioch Subhi Barakat 64 Antioch Mustafa Lutfi al-Rifa‘i 65 Idlib Zaki Yahya 66 Idlib Fuad Abd al-Karim 67 Idlib Ahmad al-‘Ayashi 68 Hauran Fares Ahmad al-Zu‘bi 69 Hauran Nasser al-Zu‘bi 70 Hauran Abd al-Rahman al-Zu‘bi 71 As-Salt Saeed Abu Naji 72 As-Salt Saeed al-Sulaibi 73 Mount Lebanon Dr. Saeed Tali‘ 74 Mount Lebanon Sheikh Ibrahim al-Khatib 75 Azaz Fath al-Mar‘ashi 76 Azaz Jalal al-Qudsi 77 Ajloun Abd al-Rahman Irshidat 78 Ajloun Suleiman al-Soudi 79 Suwayda Naseeb al-Atrash 80 Quneitra Prince Mahmoud al-Fa‘our 81 Al-Bab Sharif al-Darwish 82 Jableh Naji Ali Adeeb 83 Jabal al-Hisn Mustafa al-As‘ad al-Dandashi 84 Harem Youssef al-Kiyali 85 Hasbaya Fa’iz al-Shihabi 86 Hisn al-Akrad Da‘as al-Hajj Hassan 87 Douma Mahmoud al-Shishakli 88 Akkar Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif 89 Karak Issa Madanat 90 Koura Tawfiq Mufarrij 91 Matn Rashid Naffa‘ 92 Marjeyoun Murad Ghalmiyah 93 Ma'an Khalil al-Tallhouni 94 Mount Simeon Sheikh Abd al-Hamid al-Jabri 95 Ma'arrat al-Nu'man Hikmat al-Haraki 96 Manbij Mahmoud Nadeem 97 Nabk Khalil Abu al-Reesh 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120

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