Hussein el-Shafei

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Hussein el-Shafei ON
حسين الشافعي‎
Vice President of Egypt
In office 20 March 1968 – 16 April 1975
President	Gamal Abdel Nasser Anwar Sadat
Preceded by	Ali Sabri
Succeeded by	Hosni Mubarak
In office 16 August 1961 – 30 September 1965
President	Gamal Abdel Nasser
Preceded by	Nur al-Din Kahala
Succeeded by	Ali Sabri
Minister of Defense
In office 17 April 1954 – 31 August 1954
President	Gamal Abdel Nasser
Preceded by	Abdel Latif Boghdadi
Succeeded by	Abdel Hakim Amer
Personal details
Born	(1918-02-08)8 February 1918 Tanta, Sultanate of Egypt
Died	18 November 2005(2005-11-18) (aged 87) Cairo, Egypt
Military service
Allegiance	Kingdom of Egypt  Egypt
Branch/service	Egyptian Army
Years of service	1938–1975
Rank	Colonel
Unit	Cavalry
Battles/wars	Second World War 1948 Arab-Israeli War Suez Crisis Six-Day War Yom Kippur War

Hussein Mahmoud Hassan el-Shafei (Arabic: حسين محمود حسن الشافعي; 8 February 1918 – 18 November 2005) was an Egyptian military officer who was a member of the Free Officers Movement 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 and led the country's cavalry corps during the uprising, and was one of only three last-surviving members of the Revolutionary Command Council at the time of his death.