Abdul Wahab Murjan
Abdul Wahab Mirjan | |
|---|---|
عبد الوهاب مرجان | |
| Prime Minister of Iraq | |
| In office 15 December 1957 – 3 March 1958 | |
| Monarch | Faisal II |
| Preceded by | Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi |
| Succeeded by | Nuri al-Said |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1909 Al Hillah, Ottoman Iraq |
| Died | March 15, 1964 (age 54–55) Baghdad, Iraq |
Abdul Wahab Murjan (Arabic: عبد الوهاب مرجان; 1909 – March 15, 1964) was an Iraqi politician who served as the Prime Minister of Iraq from 1957 to 1958. His tenure as prime minister oversaw Iraq's short-lived union with Jordan, which was formalized on February 14, 1958. A relative newcomer to the Iraqi government, Murjan first joined the cabinet in 1947. He resigned less than a month after the federation was declared, in favor of Nuri al-Said, and survived the 1958 republican coup later that year and died in 1964.
Murjan was known, along with his father Abdul Razzaq Murjan, as being compassionate to his country; Abdul Razzaq Murjan and his cousin Abdul Abbas donated a number of valuable assets, such as Murjan Hospital in the Babylon Province in central Iraq and a large number of houses for the poor in the country.