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Omar is the first Somali American in the United States Congress and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota. She is also one of the first two Muslim women (along with Rashida Tlaib ) to serve in Congress.
First of two Muslim women in Congress. Born to a Muslim family of Palestinian immigrants. [7] Abraham Hamadeh: Republican: AZ-08: January 3, 2025: Incumbent 51 days First Muslim in Congress who is a member of the Republican Party. Identifies as non-Denominational. [8] Lateefah Simon: Democratic: CA-12: January 3, 2025: Incumbent 51 days [9]
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.
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[49] [50] In 1990, Rep. Susan Molinari become the first woman elected to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of her father rather than his death. [51] Mae Nolan of California becomes the first woman elected to Congress to fill the vacant seat caused by the death of her husband in 1922, which is sometimes known as the widow's succession.
The U.S. will have its first Bangladeshi American and first Muslim woman federal judge after the Senate confirmed Nusrat Choudhury on Thursday.
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]
The district's first female member of Congress, she is also the first Asian American to represent Washington at the federal level. Before entering electoral politics, Jayapal was a Seattle-based civil rights activist, serving until 2012 as the executive director of OneAmerica, a pro-immigrant advocacy group. [ 2 ]