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Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party. [6] Before her election to Congress, Omar served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019, representing part of Minneapolis.
Ilhan Omar (born 1981) Somali [Note 1] Sunni Muslim Democratic: Minnesota: January 3, 2019: Incumbent Donna Shalala (born 1941) Lebanese: Maronite Catholic Democratic: Florida: January 3, 2019: January 3, 2021: Lost reelection Rashida Tlaib (born 1976) Palestinian: Sunni Muslim Democratic: Michigan: January 3, 2019: Incumbent Stephanie Bice ...
Ilhan Omar: Democratic: MN-05: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years, 48 days 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, 48 days First of two ...
Ilhan Omar’s Political Journey Omar was born in Somalia, and fled the country’s civil war with her family when she was 8 years old. She spent four years at a refugee camp in Kenya before ...
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn., ... Omar, who was born in Somalia in 1982, came to America as a refugee with her father and siblings ...
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) has called for the deportation Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a U.S. citizen, to her birth country of Somalia. “America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported ...
Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley unseated Joe Crowley and Mike Capuano, respectively, in primary elections.Omar won the seat previously held by Democrat Keith Ellison, who retired from the House to successfully run for Attorney General of Minnesota, and Tlaib won the seat once held by Dean of the House John Conyers, who resigned in 2017 after nearly 53 years in Congress.
A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress and one of the first two Muslim women elected (along with Ilhan Omar) to Congress. Tlaib was born to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit in 1976.