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She faced health care worker and conservative activist Jennifer Zielinski in the November 6 general election [64] and won with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress, the first woman of color to serve as a U.S. Representative from Minnesota, [13] and (alongside former Michigan state representative ...
First of two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim. Born to a Muslim family in Somalia and immigrated as a refugee to the United States in 1995. [6] Rashida Tlaib: Democratic: MI-13: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years, 39 days First of two Muslim women in Congress. Born to a Muslim family of Palestinian immigrants. [7 ...
Tlaib and Omar were also the first Muslim women in Congress. [3] The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members. The first Assyrian American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was Adam Benjamin in 1977, [4] and the first Persian-American U.S. representative was Stephanie Bice in 2021. [5]
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Minnesota Attorney General Kieth Ellison, who in his previous job was the first Muslim American elected to Congress, met with Biden last week at the White House.
Minnesota's main cities house a sizeable Somali American population and liberal Democratic Congress member Ilhan Omar, a fierce critic of Biden's Israel policy, represents a district in the state.
Ilhan Omar – One of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. [33] Farah Pandith – Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the US Department of State; official advisor to President Obama on Muslim matters; Zahid Quraishi – first Muslim Article III district court judge in the United States [34]
Mee Moua (RPA: Mim Muas, Pahawh: 𖬂𖬦 𖬑𖬲𖬦; born June 30, 1969, in Xieng Khouang, Laos), is an American politician, and is the former president and executive director of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC (Advancing Justice-AAJC) [1] She served as the vice president for strategic impact initiatives at the Asian & Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) from 2011–12, [2 ...