Hussein el-Shafei Politician
Hussein Mahmoud Hassan el-Shafei, (Arabic: حسين محمود حسن الشافعي), also known as Hussein el-Shafei (8 February 1918 – 18 November 2005), was a member of Egypt's 1952 revolutionary leadership council and served as vice-president under two Egyptian presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. He was one of the nine men who had constituted themselves as the committee of the Free Officers Movement, led the country's cavalry corps during the uprising and was one of only three living members of the Revolutionary Command Council at the time of his death.
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| office | Minister of Defense Vice President of Egypt |
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