Daoud Amoun

{{Short description|Lebanese politician (1869–1922)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|image = Daoud Amoun 2.jpg

|office = 1st Legislative speaker of Greater Lebanon

|term_start = 4 October 1920

|term_end = 11 March 1922

|successor = Habib Pacha Saad

|birth_date = 1869

|death_date = {{death year and age|1922|1867}}

}}

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Daoud Amoun ({{Langx|ar|داود عمون}}; 1867 – 1922) was a Lebanese Maronite Christian politician who served as speaker of the Administrative Committee of Greater Lebanon from 1920 to 1922.{{Cite web|title=اللجنة الادارية - العقد العادي1 - محضر الجلسة 1 - 1920|url=http://www.legallaw.ul.edu.lb/parliament/pca/1920/P1920N11/000.HTML|access-date=2020-11-28|website=www.legallaw.ul.edu.lb}}

Born in Deir al-Qamar, Amoun moved to France, where he studied law.{{Cite web|title=داوُد عَمُّون|url=https://islamic-content.com/person/3487|access-date=2020-11-28|website=islamic-content.com|language=ar-SA}} He returned to Lebanon, and became known for writing patriotic poems about the country.{{Cite web|title=الاستقلال… نقطة مضيئة في تاريخ لبنان|url=https://www.al-binaa.com/archives/article/179329|access-date=2020-11-28|website=Al-Binaa|language=ar}} Before the first world war, he moved with his children to Egypt.[https://www.general-security.gov.lb/uploads/magazines/63-1/23.pdf السلطان يلغي اإلمتيازات ويحتل لبنان لكن صقيع الجبال يقود جنوده إلى مهالك] His daughter Blanche Lohéac-Ammoun would become a known painter in Lebanon and France.{{Cite web |date=2011-10-31 |title=Ammoun, Blanche Lohéac |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00004152 |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00004152}}

In 1918, he headed a delegation to Paris Peace Conference, where he demanded an independent Lebanese state.{{Cite web|title=بالأبيض والأسود {{!}} الموقع الرسمي للجيش اللبناني|url=https://www.lebarmy.gov.lb/ar/army-magazine-categories/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B6-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF|access-date=2020-11-28|website=www.lebarmy.gov.lb}} Two years later, the State of Greater Lebanon was established, and he was appointed as a member of the Administrative Committee, which was the first legislative body. During the first session, he was elected as its speaker. He is the first legislative speaker of Lebanon.{{Cite web|title=تصغير "لبنان الكبير"|url=https://www.aljoumhouria.com/ar/news/552316|access-date=2020-11-28|website=الجمهورية|language=ar}}