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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningSuleiman FrangiehFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchSuleiman FrangiehSuleiman Kabalan Beik Frangieh, last name also spelt Frangié, Franjieh, or Franjiyeh, (15 June 1910 - 23 July 1992) (Arabic: ÓáíãÇä ÝÑäÌíÉ), was President of Lebanon from 1970 to 1976. His presidency saw the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, which raged from 1975 to 1990, as well as the start of the Syrian military occupation of Lebanon, which continued until 2005.Contents1 Education and early career2 The presidential election of 19703 The civil war years4 Personal life[edit]Education and early careerFrangieh was educated at De La Salle School in Tripoli, Saint Joseph School in Zgharta, and Aintoura College in Kisrwan, before graduating from the Jesuit University in Beirut. He went on to run an importing and exporting business.Frangieh was briefly threatened with arrest in 1957 when implicated in the murder of several members of a rival clan. He fled to Syria, where he became acquainted with Hafez al-Assad, who was later to become President of Syria. The charges against him were soon dropped, however, and following his brother Hamid Beik Frangiehs retirement from politics in 1957, he returned to Lebanon in 1960 to succeed as the National Assembly member for Zgharta.Frangieh was reelected to Parliament in 1964 and 1968. During his decade in Parliament, he held a number of ministerial portfolios as Minister of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone, Agriculture, the Interior, Justice, the Economy, and Public Works.[edit]The presidential election of 1970In the closest and possibly most controversial presidential election in Lebanese history, the National Assembly elected Frangieh to the Presidency of the Republic on August 17, 1970. He owed his upset victory over Elias Sarkis to a last minute change of mind by Kamal Jumblatt, whose supporters in the National Assembly switched their votes to Frangieh. Posing as a consensus candidate, Frangieh drew support from both the right and the left and from all religious factions; there was little that united his supporters ideologically except his promise to maintain the semi-feudal system which concentrated power in the hands of local clan leaders known as Zaiyms, a system that many Zaiyms felt was being undermined by reforms enacted by the administrations of Presidents of Fuad Chehab (1958-1964) and Charles Helou (1964-1970), reforms that Sarkis had pledged to continue. Frangiehs victory also owed something to his willingness to resort to violence: after the third ballot resulted in a 49/49 split, gunmen led by Frangiehs son Tony forced their way into the parliamentary complex and forced the Parliamentary Speaker (who, by custom, had abstained) to use his casting vote in favour of Frangieh.[edit]The civil war yearsWhen the Lebanese Civil War began, Frangieh maintained a militia, the Marada Brigade, under the command of his son Tony. He initially participated in the Leban
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