Hussein el-Shafei

Hussein el-Shafei

Infobox Vice President
name=Hussein el-Shafei|

order=Vice President of Egypt
term_start=1961
term_end=1975
president=Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat
predecessor=
successor=Hosni Mubarak
birth_date=birth date|1918|2|2|mf=y
birth_place=Tanta, Egypt
death_date=death date and age|2005|11|18|1918|2|2|mf=y
death_place=Cairo, Egypt
party=
religion=Muslim
spouse=

Hussein Mahmoud Hassan el-Shafei,( _ar. حسين محمود حسن الشافعي), also known as Hussein el-Shafei (b. February 2, 1918, Tanta; d. November 18, 2005), was a member of Egypt's July, 1952 revolutionary leadership council and served as vice-president under two former Egyptian presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat . He was one of the nine men who had constituted themselves as the committee of the Free Officers Movement, led the country's cavalry corps during the uprising and was one of only three living members of the Revolutionary Command Council at the time of his death.

Born in 1918, el-Shafei graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1938. He was appointed minister of war in 1954 and served as Egypt's minister of labor and social affairs during Egypt's merger with Syria. He served as vice-president under Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1961.

During his tenure as minister of social affairs, el-Shafei introduced social insurance reforms considered radical at the time, including pensions to widows. His Winter Charity campaign provided Egypt's poor with basic necessities. Some Egyptian celebrities took part in the "mercy trains" which delivered the goods, including actress Faten Hamama.

Anwar Sadat appointed el-Shafei as vice-president of Egypt's new government in 1971 and was succeeded by Hosni Mubarak in 1975.

Mubarak was among the senior officials at el-Shafei's state funeral.

ee also

*Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council
*Free Officers Movement
*1952 Revolution

External link and reference

* [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/770/eg12.htm "Al-Ahram" English-language obituary]


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