Ahmad Toukan

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Ahmad Tuqan
Official portrait from 1960

Prime Minister of Jordan
In office 26 September 1970 – 28 October 1970
Monarch	King Hussein
Preceded by	Mohammad Daoud Al-Abbasi
Succeeded by	Wasfi al-Tal

Personal details
Born	(1903-08-15)15 August 1903 Nablus, Beirut vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died	5 January 1981(1981-01-05) (aged 77) Amman, Jordan
Political party	Independent

Ahmad Toukan^[a] (Arabic: أحمد طوقان, romanized: Aḥmad Ṭūqān;‎ 15 August 1903 – 5 January 1981^[1]) was a Jordanian political leader of Palestinian descent. He was briefly the 20th Prime Minister of Jordan from 26 September 1970 to 28 October 1970, during a crackdown that drove the PLO guerillas out of Jordan.^[2]

Life

Tuqan was born in Nablus, then part of the Ottoman Empire.^[3] He was the eldest brother of Ibrahim Touqan and Fadwa Touqan, both of whom were poets.^{[citation needed]}

He was on the staff of the Arab College in Palestine during the British Mandatory period.^[3]

He died in Jordan on 5 January 1981, aged 77, after a prolonged illness.^[1] The Ahmad Toukan School in Amman is named in his honor.

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Toukan occupied the following high-ranking positions:

UNESCO Expert and UNRWA Deputy Head of Education (1954–1961)
Education Expert at the International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (1962–1966)
Minister (including Foreign Minister, Minister of State and Deputy Prime Minister during the years 1950–1970)
Prime Minister in 1970
Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan in 1972
Chairman of University of Jordan's Board of Trustees in 1972.^{[citation needed]}

^ ^a ^b "Ahmed Toukan, 78, Ex-Premier; Led Jordan During '70 Crackdown". The New York Times. 5 January 1981.
^ Hess, John L. (27 September 1970). "Hussein Forms a New Regime But Is Assailed by Commandos". The New York Times..
^ ^a ^b Khalidi, Walid. Before Their Diaspora : A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1991, 172.

Political offices
Preceded by Mohammad Daoud Al-Abbasi	Prime Minister of Jordan 1970	Succeeded by Wasfi al-Tal

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Emirate of Transjordan (1921–1946)	Ṭaliʽa Raslan^* al-Rikabi^† Raslan H. Al-Huda al-Rikabi^† H. Al-Huda Siraj Hashem T. Al-Huda S. Al-Rifai Hashem	Jordan
Kingdom of Jordan (1946–)	Hashem S. Al-Rifai T. Al-Huda Mufti S. Al-Rifai T. Al-Huda F. Mulki T. Al-Huda Mufti H. Majali Hashem^* S. Al-Rifai Mufti Hashem Nabulsi Khalidi Hashem Al-Rifai H. Majali Talhouni Tal S. Al-Rifai ibn Nasser Talhouni Tal ibn Nasser Jumaa Talhouni A. Rifai Talhouni A. Rifai Al-Abbasi^† Toukan Tal Lawzi Z. Rifai M. Badran Sharaf Rimawi M. Badran Obeidat Z. Rifai ibn Shaker M. Badran Masri ibn Shaker Majali ibn Shaker Kabariti A. Majali Tarawneh Rawabdeh Abu Al-Ragheb Fayez A. Badran Bakhit Dahabi Rifai Bakhit A. Khasawneh Tarawneh Esour H. Mulki Razzaz Khasawneh Hassan	Jordan
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