Michel Murr was a Lebanese politician and businessman.
17 Facts About Michel Murr
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Michel Murr served as member of parliament, deputy prime minister and interior minister and was a prominent lawmaker in the northern Metn region.
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Michel Murr was born to a Greek Orthodox Christian family in the Matn District village of Bteghrine in 1931.
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Michel Murr studied engineering at St Joseph University and graduated in 1955.
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Michel Murr later studied law at the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas and graduated in 1958.
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Michel Murr ran for a seat in the parliament in 1960, but he lost to Albert Moukheiber.
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Michel Murr then went to live in West Africa during much of the 1960s and made a sizable fortune there in the construction industry.
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Michel Murr returned to Lebanon and tried to enter the parliament but failed again, while allying with the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, then he was elected to parliament in 1968 by aligning himself with Pierre Gemayel who dominated politics in the predominantly Maronite Christian Metn district.
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Hobeika and Michel Murr were subsequently ousted from the LF leadership by Samir Geagea.
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Michel Murr was defense minister from December 1990 to October 1992.
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Michel Murr was appointed interior minister in the 1996 Rafic Hariri cabinet and kept the post in the 1998 Salim Hoss government.
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Michel Murr continued to serve in this post until 2000 when his son Elias Michel Murr replaced him.
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Michel Murr was the leader of the Metn Bloc that is an independent political party.
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Michel Murr last won a seat in the parliament in the 2018 Lebanese general election.
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Michel Murr was married to Sylvie Abu Jaoude, and had three children: Elias, Mirna and Lena.
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Michel Murr is the grandfather of Lebanese politician Nayla Tueni and ex-father-in-law of Gebran Tueni.
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On 31 January 2021, the National News Agency announced that Michel Murr had died due to complications from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic.