{{short description|Lebanese politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Hamid Beik Frangieh.jpg | caption = Hamid Bey Frangieh in 1948 | name = Hamid Bey Frangieh | office = 7th [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants (Lebanon)|Foreign Minister of Lebanon]] | term_start = 1955 | term_end = 1955 | prime_minister = [[Sami Solh|Sami El Solh]] | predecessor = [[Alfred Naccache]] | successor = [[Salim Lahoud]] | office1 = 2nd [[Ministry of Finance (Lebanon)|Finance Minister of Lebanon]] | term_start1 = 3 July 1944 | term_end1 = 9 January 1945 | prime_minister1 = [[Riad Al Solh]] | predecessor1 = Riad Al Solh | successor1 = [[Abdul Hamid Karami]] | birth_date = 6 August 1907 | birth_place = [[Ehden]], [[Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate]], [[Ottoman Empire]] | death_date = 5 September 1981 | party = Independent | children = 6, including [[Samir Frangieh|Samir]] | relatives = [[Suleiman Frangieh]] (brother) }} {{Maronite Politics sidebar}} '''Hamid Frangieh''' (6 August 1907 &ndash; 5 September 1981) was a [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] member of the [[Parliament of Lebanon]] and held numerous ministerial positions in the Lebanese government. He was one of the [[Maronite Christianity in Lebanon|Maronite]] leaders of [[Lebanon]].<ref name=oren2002>{{cite journal|last=Barak|first=Oren|title=Conflict and Peace in Lebanon|journal=Int. J. Middle East Stud.|year=2002|pages=619–644|doi=10.1017/S0020743802004026 |s2cid=161175759 |url=http://politics.huji.ac.il/OrenBarak/ijmes.pdf|access-date=18 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814155356/http://politics.huji.ac.il/OrenBarak/ijmes.pdf|archive-date=14 August 2007}}</ref>

==Early life== Hamid was born in [[Ehden]] Lebanon, the son of politician Kabalan Suleimen Frangieh<ref>[https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I86&tree=ehden Kabalan Frangieh on Ehden Family Tree website]</ref> and Lamia Raffoul<ref>[https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I727&tree=ehden Lamia Raffoul on Ehden Family Tree website]</ref> from [[Ejbeh]] Lebanon. The family had a long history of public service. Kabalan Frangieh was district governor of Ehden (1908–1913) and a member of the parliament (1929–1932). His grandfather, Suleiman Ghnatios Frangieh, was district governor of Ehden (1904–1908); and his brother [[Suleiman Franjieh|Suleiman]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I85&tree=ehden |title=President Sleiman Frangieh on Ehden Family Tree website |access-date=2020-04-16 |archive-date=2021-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119150516/https://www.ehdenfamilytree.com/getperson.php?personID=I85&tree=ehden |url-status=live }}</ref> became [[President of Lebanon]].

Hamid attended "Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes" school in [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]], for his primary education, then to [[Aintoura]] for his secondary education. In 1930, he graduated in [[law]] from the [[Université de Saint-Joseph]] in [[Beirut]].

His early career was both in the law and [[journalism]], with Hamid becoming one of the cofounders and columnists of the ''[[Le Jour]]'' newspaper in 1933.

==Government career== Frangieh was elected as a member of Parliament for the first time in 1932 aged 25. In 1937 he became the sole member of the opposition in North Lebanon to be elected. He was elected again on a further five times in 1943, 1947, 1951, 1953 and 1957 before he withdrew from political life due to illness. He was instrumental in ensuring [[UNESCO]]'s first world conference was held in Beirut.

During his tenure as a member of Parliament, he also held ministerial offices, including as follows: * [[Minister of Finance (Lebanon)|Minister of Finance]] (July 1944 - January 1945)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.finance.gov.lb/en-us/About/Minister/Pages/Former-Ministers.aspx|title=Former Ministers|date=December 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218051220/http://www.finance.gov.lb/en-us/About/Minister/Pages/Former-Ministers.aspx|archive-date=December 18, 2019}}</ref> * Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Education (1945 - 1949) * Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigration, resigned 2 months later due to ill health (1941, 1955)

==Personal life== In 1941 he married his cousin and they had six children: Kabalan, [[Samir Frangieh|Samir]], Nabil, Marie-Claude, Zeina and Liliane.

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==External links== *[https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I87&tree=ehden Hamid Frangieh on Ehden Family Tree Website] *{{Commons-inline}}

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