Abdul-Wahab Mirjan served as Prime Minister of Iraq from 1957 to 1958 at the time of that country's short-lived union with Jordan, which was formalized on February 14,1958.
10 Facts About Abdul-Wahab Mirjan
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Abdul-Wahab Mirjan survived the republican coup later that year and died in 1964.
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Abdul-Wahab Mirjan graduated from the College of Law in Baghdad in 1932 and was appointed Justice of the Peace in Suweira.
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Abdul-Wahab Mirjan was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in all subsequent terms until the revolution of 1958.
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Abdul-Wahab Mirjan was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies on first of December 1948 and re-elected to a new term as chamber president on first of December 1949.
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Abdul-Wahab Mirjan was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies for the fourth time on first December 1953, remaining until the Chamber was dissolved on 29 April 1954.
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Abdul-Wahab Mirjan was re-elected the president of the new Chamber which convened on 26 July 1954; but the Chamber was immediately dissolved on 3 August 1954.
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Abdul-Wahab Mirjan participated in Nuri al-Said's twelfth cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, then was elected another time to the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies on 16 September 1954; was re-elected as the chamber president on first of December 1954; again on first of December 1955 and on first of December 1956.
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Abdul-Wahab Mirjan undertook the office of Prime Minister and acting Minister of Defence on 15 December 1957, remaining until 2 March 1958.
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Abdul-Wahab Mirjan got terminally ill and died in Baghdad on the morning of Sunday 15 March 1964.