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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Tawfiq Abu Al-Huda Al-Taji
Al-Farouqi was born in the city of Acre in 1894 and from a well-known family
whose origins are from Ramla in Palestine. He was appointed to the position of
Prime Minister 12 times in Jordan during the era of three kings: King Abdullah
I bin Al-Hussein, King Talal bin Abdullah and King Hussein bin Talal . He
received his primary education in Ramleh and secondary school in Beirut. He
joined the Royal Office in Istanbul and studied law for three years. In 1915 he
was called up for military service and appointed as a reserve officer. He
served as a commissioner of accounts on the fronts of Iraq, Iran and Aleppo
until the Ottoman forces withdrew from Syria in October 1918. He was appointed
as a clerk at the School of Law in internal Syria and continued to serve there
until after the French takeover of Damascus by about two years (1919-1922).
Then Tawfiq Abu Al-Huda moved from Damascus to Amman in 1922 and was appointed
Director of Revenues. During the six years, Abu Al-Huda was able to quickly
move up the ladder of responsible positions, from Director of Revenues to
Director of General Accounting, then Director of the Land Registration
Department, and a member of the Executive Council in 1928 to That he was
appointed Secretary General of the Government in 1929 and assumed the
presidency of the Executive Council in September 1938 and assumed the position
of prime minister several times, the second of which was on August 6, 1939 and
the tenth on September 30, 1952.
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