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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 ...
Retired to run successfully for Minnesota Attorney General. [1] André Carson: Democratic: IN-07: March 11, 2008: Incumbent 16 years, 334 days Raised Baptist, converted to Islam as a teenager. [5] Ilhan Omar: Democratic: MN-05: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years, 36 days First of two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim.
Along with fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Tlaib is one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress. [4] [38] [24] She took the congressional oath of office on January 3, 2019, swearing in on an English-language translation of the Quran. [39] [40] She wore a thawb (thobe), a traditional embroidered Arab dress, to the swearing-in ...
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ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) -President Joe Biden won almost all the Democratic nominating contests on "Super Tuesday" but a sizeable protest vote in Minnesota and six other states against his ...
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country’s largest Muslim advocacy group, organized three separate protests at various locations Biden visited Wednesday ...
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]
First Muslim woman to serve as a United States federal judge. [24] Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author [25] Sada Cumber – first US envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference [26] Hamida Dakane – first Black and first Muslim to serve in the North Dakota House of Representatives [27]