[1] He served as Minister of Justice in the Ministry of Hikmat Suleiman as a replacement for Salih Jabr, who resigned in 1937.
[2] He also briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1941 in the third ministry of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, as well as minister of justice in the fourth ministry of Rashid al-Kilani the same year.
[3] He returned to the position of finance minister in the ministry of Mustafa al-Omari for a short time in November 1952 in place of the dismissed minister Ibrahim Shabandar,[2][4] and then continued his position in the ministry of Noureddine Mahmoud.
[2][4] His notes were published in 1985 by the examination and commentary of Dr. Mohammed Hussein al Zubaidi.
[5][6] In 2015, the research of the master student Mahd Talib in the College of Education - University of Qadisiyah entitled: "Ali Mahmoud Shaykh Ali and his role in the history of Iraq 1901–1958".