Mahmoud Jam

Mahmoud Jam محمودجم , known as Modir Al-Molk , is an Iranian politician born with Tabriz in 1885 and died with Teheran in 1969.

Biography

Mahmoud Jam achieves her secondary education with Tabriz and learns the French as an autodidact. It starts to work as a French professor and is then made engage to work in Tabriz with Henry Renard, the professor of French of prince Mohammad Ali Mirza, as a translator, and then with his personal doctor Dr. Coppin.

It goes then to Teheran where it enters the administration as translator to the office of the customs. It intervenes as interprets during the First World War in the negotiations between the embassy of France and the government of the Perse. It enters to the ministry for finances in 1919, time to which Ahmad Chah allots to him the title of Modir Al-Molk .

Mahmoud Jam will be Prime Minister of Iran of 1935 to 1939, period which will see the inauguration of the Persian Corridor, the marriage of the crown prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with the princess Fawzia to Egypt and the inderdiction made to the women carry the veil. It will also act as quality of Minister for the Court of 1939 in September 1941.

Occupied stations

Foreign Minister, 1921
Vice-minister of finances, 1922
Minister for Finance, 1923
Minister of Interior Department, 1933
Prime Minister, 1935

Mahmoud Jam was also governor of the province of the Khorassan, ambassador in Egypt, ambassador in Italy and senator.

References

Avsati, Alireza, Iran in the last 3 Centuries, vol.1 , Teheran, 2003,
Avsati, Alireza, Iran in the last 3 Centuries, vol.2 , Teheran, 2003,

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