Amir Nosrat'ollah Balakhanlou
1st Publicly Elected Mayor of Hamedan
In office
1950–1960
Personal details
Born1917
Tehran, Iran
DiedMay 20, 2007
SpouseFereshteh Abbaspour

Amir Nosrat'ollah Balakhanlou (Persian: اميرنصرت الله بالاخانلو) (1917 – May 20, 2007) was an Iranian (Persian) politician. Born in Tehran, he served as a two-time Mayor and MP for Hamedan in 1950s and early 1960s.[1]

Biography

Amir Nosrat'ollah Balakhanlou was born in Tehran, Iran. He was one of the two sons of Commander Asad Khan of Talesh.[2] His maternal grandfather, Mirza Mahmud Ehtesham ol-Saltaneh, was the Iranian ambassador to Russia, and was the President of the Majlis in the early 1900s. Ehtesham ol-Saltaneh was also one of the founding fathers of the Iranian Constitution during the Qajar dynasty.[3]

As a young man, Amir N. Balakhanlou completed his higher education and his military service in the Royal Air Force Academy of Iran. In the mid-1950s, he served as the first publicly elected mayor of Hamedan.[4] He continued to serve a second term as the mayor, and in the early 1960s, became the MP from Hamedan in Iran's twenty-first (21st) round of Parliament (Majlis of Iran).[5]

References

  1. ↑ دكتر بهروز مرادي: قدرشناسي مردم همدان كم‌نظير و نمونه است Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ فرزندان و نوادگان بالاخانلو درباره پدر چه مي‌گويند؟ Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Parliamentary Library – "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 8, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ Fars News Agency : خاكسپاري اولين شهردار مردمي همدان
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 24, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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