Career
He lived in Helta, Lebanon and served in the Administration Council for Mount Lebanon between the years 1902 and 1907. Franko Pasha was the governor of Mount Lebanon from 1868 to 1873. Saadallah Howayek was appointed as interim mutasarrif after Franko Pasha"s office expired, while the Ottoman porte appointed a new governor.
Saadallah Howayek was then elected into the Maronite Batroun seat of the Administration Council.
Kanaan First Rate (at Lloyd's) Daher was elected three times between the years 1888 and 1902 as representative of North Lebanon on the Administrative Council and saadallah Howayek was one of his major supporters in those elections. Yusuf Pasha, chairman from 1907–1912 of Mount Lebanon, even after conflict with the administration council, was left with no choice but to appoint Saadallah Howayek (the leader of the liberal councilors at that time) as deputy chairman of the Council in his final years.
Many people believed that Lebanon was the Maronite Church"s ideal city. This was mainly due to the communities being separated, its population predominantly Christian, and its dependence on a major power for security.
Seven councilors began to promote an alternative view of the city, but were condemned as traitors and exiled in 1920.
One of the leaders of this group was Saadallah Howayek, a veteran politician, the Maronite representative of Batrun in the Council, and the patriarch"s brother.