Background
Sadok Mokaddem was born on February 24, 1914, at Tunis.
Sadok Mokaddem was born on February 24, 1914, at Tunis.
Educated at the Lycee Carnot, Tunis, then graduated as a doctor in Paris where he was a member of the first Destourian party cell in 1936.
During President Bourguiba’s enforced residence at Marseilles in 1940 Dr Mokaddcm was the linkman with the nationalists leaders who remained in Tunis. In 1945 he resumed his work as a doctor, first at Sadiki Hospital then at the Tunis General Hospital. He was arrested with other nationalists after the assassination of Farhat Hached and spent a year in exile in the south before being released on December 30, 1953.
Tunisia’s first Minister of Justice from August 1954 to September 1955, he was then Minister of Public Health until April 1956. After being Ambassador in Cairo for a year he became State Secretary at the Foreign Ministry from July 1957 until August 1962, when he was appointed Ambassador to France. In November 1964 he returned for the elections and was appointed President of the National Assembly.
Veteran Destourian leader from his days as a medical student in France. Key liaison figure during President Bourguiba’s exile. Respected in the party and government as a conscientious minister and a skilled ambassador in the early years of independence.
