1. Charles Debbas was a Greek Orthodox Lebanese political figure.
16 Facts About Charles Debbas
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Charles Debbas was the first President of Lebanon and served from 1 September 1926 to 2 January 1934, under the French Mandate of Lebanon.
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Charles Debbas served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon from January to October 1934.
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Charles Debbas was born in Beirut to a prominent Greek Orthodox Beiruti family of Damascene origin.
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Charles Debbas was the son of Gerges Khalil Debbas and Marie Salim Jbeili.
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Charles Debbas was a pupil at the College des Jesuites.
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The couple began to live in Beirut, Debbas working there as an attorney.
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Charles Debbas began to write articles in the Beirut-based French-language newspaper La Liberte which had been founded in 1908 by Butrus Mansur Tayyan.
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Charles Debbas responded in the press that he stood by what he had written and that the wali should submit the matter to court if he thought his article had infringed the law.
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Charles Debbas returned to Paris in 1913 as secretary of the Arab Congress.
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Charles Debbas became a member of the Central Syrian Committee during World War I Debbas had returned to Paris on 5 October 1919, and got married with Burgart on 24 October in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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On 20 October 1920, Charles Debbas was appointed Director of Judicial Services of Greater Lebanon by Robert de Caix, the Secretary General of the High Commissioner.
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On 26 May 1926, three days after the adoption of the Lebanese constitution, Charles Debbas was elected President of Lebanon by both Chambers of the Parliament reunited in a Congress, for a three-year term.
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Charles Debbas was re-elected president on 23 March 1929 by the Chamber of Deputies, by 42 votes out of 44, for another three years.
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On 2 January 1934, Charles Debbas delivered a letter of resignation from his presidential functions; he was replaced by Habib Pacha Saad.
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Charles Debbas sailed to France in April 1935 in order to stay there for six months but died on 22 August of that year, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, 6 rue Piccini.