Ja'far Pishevari

Ja'far Pishevari
President of Azerbaijan People's Government
In office
2 November 1945 – 15 November 1946
Member-elect of the Parliament of Iran
In office
Admission refused on 13 July 1944
ConstituencyTabriz
Interior Minister of the Persian Socialist Soviet Republic
In office
1921
Personal details
BornJafar Javadzadeh
(1892-08-26)August 26, 1892
DiedJune 11, 1947(1947-06-11) (aged 54)
Cause of deathCar crash
CitizenshipIran
Soviet Union
PartyAzerbaijani Democratic Party
Other political
affiliations
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Sayyed Ja'far Pishevari (Persian: سید جعفر پیشه‌وری; Azerbaijani: Seyid Cəfər Pişəvəri; Russian: Сеид Джафар Пишевари; 26 August 1892 – 11 June 1947) was an Iranian Azerbaijani communist politician who most-notably founded and led the Azerbaijani Democratic Party, the founding and ruling party of the Azerbaijan People's Government, the short-lived unrecognized secessionist state in northern Iran from November 1945 to December 1946.