Mohsen Sadr

Mohsen Sadr was a judge and politician, the prime minister of Iran and the president of the Senate of Iran. During his government, Iran became one of the founding states of the United Nations by signing the Charter of the United Nations.

Life and politics

He was born in Mahallat in Markazi in 1871 as the son of Seyyed Hossein 'Fakhr ol-Zakerin', a wealthy clergyman, by a daughter of Hajji Molla Akbar Khorassani. He received his title "Sadr ol-Ashraf' after the death of his paternal uncle Seyyed Sadr ed-Din 'Sadr ol-Ashraf', who had been the son-in-law of the very influential courtier Anoushirvan Khan Eyn ol-Molk. Mohsen 'Sadr ol-Ashraf' served as royal tutor to one of Naser al-Din Shah's sons, and served in many senior government positions in his career, such as President of the High Court of Justice in Tehran, Governor of Khorasan, Speaker of Majlis, Minister of The Judiciary, Prime Minister in 1945 and Senator. After the death of Prince Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma in 1939 he acted as the executor of the last will of Farmanfarma and guardian of his children.

His cabinet was composed as below.

Mohsen Sadr died of brain cancer at the age of 91 in Tehran on 19 October 1962. He had three sons and seven daughters. His first child was "Abul Qasem Sadr". Hossein Eslambolchi, an Iranian-American experimental physicist and engineer, is the grandson of Abul Qasem Sadr and the great-grandchild of Mohsen Sadr.