Akram al-Hawrani (1912-24 February 1996) was Vice-President of Syria from 7 March 1958 to 19 September 1960 and one of the founders of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party alongside Michel Aflaq.
Biography[]
Akram al-Hawrani was born in 1912 in Hama, Syria, Ottoman Empire to a Sunni Muslim Arab family. He attended the medical faculty at the Jesuit University until 1932, when he was implicated in the attempted assassination of Syrian head of state Subhi Barakat. al-Hawrani was attracted by ideas of Arab nationalism and social justice, and he fought alongside the Iraqi nationalist Rashid Ali in the 1941 Anglo-Iraqi War, and in 1948 he attacked Jewish settlements in Palestine. In 1950, he founded the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party alongside Michel Aflaq, and from 1968 to 1960 he served as Vice-President of Syria with the Ba'ath Party. In March 1963, he went into exile after pro-United Arab Republic Ba'athists led a coup, and he died in Jordan in 1996 at the age of 84.