List of mayors of Amman
Appearance
Mayor of Greater Amman Municipality | |
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أمين عمّان | |
since 21 August 2017 | |
Style | His Excellency |
Appointer | The King of Jordan |
Inaugural holder | Ismael Babouk |
Formation | 1909 |
Website | Office of the Mayor |
The first municipal council in the capital city of Jordan, Amman, was established in 1909.[1][2]
List of Mayors
[edit]Authority | Mayor of Amman | Took office | Left office | ||
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Ottoman Empire | 1 | Ismael Babouk | 1909 | 1911 | |
2 | Ahmad Khatib | 1911 | 1915 | ||
3 | As'ad Hamdokh | 1915 | 1919 | ||
4 | Ayoub Fakhri Fakher | 1919 | 1920 | ||
Arab Kingdom of Syria | 5 | Saeed Khair | 1920 | 1925 | |
Emirate of Transjordan | 6 | Yousef Asfour | 1925 | 1931 | |
7 | Taher Joqqa | 1931 | 1933 | ||
8 | Alaeddin Touqan | 1933 | 1937 | ||
9 | Sameh Hijazi (1st time) |
1937 | 1938 | ||
10 | Saeed Mufti | 1938 | 1939 | ||
11 | Hashem Khair | 1939 | 1942 | ||
12 | Omar Hikmat | 1942 | 1942 | ||
13 | Subhi Kahaleh | 1942 | 1943 | ||
14 | Omar Zaki Afyouni | 1943 | 1944 | ||
15 | Ra'fat Dajani | 1944 | 1945 | ||
16 | Kamal Jayousi | 1945 | 1945 | ||
EJ and
HKJ |
(9) | Sameh Hijazi (2nd time) |
1945 | 1948 | |
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan | 17 | Abdulmajeed Adwan | 1948 | 1948 | |
18 | Hazza' Majali | 1948 | 1950 | ||
19 | Abdulrahman Khalifa | 1950 | 1952 | ||
20 | Sadqi Qasem | 1952 | 1952 | ||
21 | Farhan Shubeilat (1st time) |
1952 | 1953 | ||
22 | Salman Sokkar | 1953 | 1953 | ||
(21) | Farhan Shubeilat (2nd time) |
1953 | 1955 | ||
23 | Omar Matar | 1955 | 1957 | ||
24 | Deifallah Hmoud | 1957 | 1960 | ||
25 | Hassan Sido Kurdi | 1960 | 1962 | ||
26 | Basheer Shureiki | 1962 | 1964 | ||
27 | Ahmad Fawzi | 1964 | 1973 | ||
28 | Mohammed Touqan | 1973 | 1976 | ||
29 | Maen Abu Nowar | 1976 | 1979 | ||
30 | Issam Ajlouni | 1980 | 1982 | ||
31 | Abdelraouf Al-Rawabdeh | 1983 | 1989 | ||
32 | Ali Suheimat | 1989 | 1991 | ||
33 | Muhammed Bashir ash-Shishani | 1991 | 1993 | ||
34 | Mamdouh Abbadi | 1993 | 1998 | ||
35 | Nidal Hadid | 1998 | 2006 | ||
36 | Omar Maani | 2006 | 2011 | ||
37 | Ammar Gharaibeh (Acting mayor) |
2011 | 2012 | ||
38 | Abdulhaleem Al-Kailani (Acting mayor) |
2012 | 2013 | ||
39 | Aqel Biltaji | 2013 | 2017 | ||
40 | Yousef Shawarbeh | 2017 | present |
References
[edit]- ^ "GAM Mayors". Greater Amman Municipality. Retrieved 2015-06-08.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ "New Amman mayor pledges 'fair and responsible' governance". Jordan Times. Retrieved 2018-02-27.