Fares al-Khoury — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Fares al-Khoury; used for entity facts only. It gives his birth on 20 November 1877 at Kfeir in the Hasbaya district to a Greek Orthodox Christian family that later converted to Presbyterianism, his finance ministry under the first Syrian governments, his four presidencies of the Chamber of Deputies, his two premierships (1944–1945 and 1954–1955), his role as Syria's first permanent representative to the United Nations, and his death at Damascus on 2 January 1962. Its lead calls his premiership the highest political office a Syrian Christian has ever reached.