Pierre Gemayel
Politician
1905 – 1984
Who was Pierre Gemayel?
Sheikh Pierre Gemayel, was a Lebanese political leader. He is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party, as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bachir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, both of whom were elected to the Presidency of the Republic in his lifetime. He opposed the French Mandate over Lebanon in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and advocated an independent state, free from foreign control. He was known for his deft political maneuvering, which led him to take positions which were seen by supporters as pragmatic, but by opponents as contradictory, or even hypocritical. Although publicly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, he later changed his position due to Palestinian support of the Lebanese National Movement and its calls to end the National Pact and establish non-sectarian democracy.
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- Born
- Nov 6, 1905
Bikfaya - Children
- Profession
- Education
- Université Saint-Joseph
- Died
- Aug 29, 1984
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on July 23, 2013
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