Yaqub al-Ghussein (1899-1947) was an aristocratic Palestinian

Palestinian people

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 landowner from Ramla

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 and founder of the Youth Congress Party

Youth Congress Party

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. He graduated in law from the University of Cambridge

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. Ghussein was elected president of the first National Congress of Arab Youth, held in Jaffa

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 in January 1932. He was a member and representative of his party in the Arab Higher Committee

Arab Higher Committee

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 from its formation in 1936. In 1937 he was a member of the Supreme Muslim Council

Supreme Muslim Council

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. On 1 October of the same year he was exiled by the British to the Seychelles Islands for being a member of the Arab Higher Committee, which was outlawed by the British on 27 September 1937, following the assassination of the Acting British District Commissioner of Galilee

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, Lewis Yelland Andrews

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He was a member of the Palestinian delegation to the London Conference at St. James's Palace

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 in February 1939.

Ghussein reconstituted his faction in 1945. He died in Jerusalem on 27 December, 1948.

He was married to Thuriya Nuseibeh, also a Palestinian noble, and they had 11 children; Talat, Khaled, Abdel-Kareem, Tawfiq, Aida, Khalida, Heya, Motia’a, Khadija, Nuzha and Fatoum.