Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein
Somali politician (1912–2012)
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Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (Somali: Sheekh Mukhtaar Maxamed Xuseen, Arabic: الشيخ محمد حسين مختار; 1912–12 June 2012) was a Somali politician and the Speaker of the Parliament of the Somali Republic, and later briefly an Acting President in 1969.
Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein مختار محمد حسين | |
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 Hussein in the 1960s | |
| President of Somalia | |
| In office 15 October 1969 – 21 October 1969 | |
| Prime Minister | Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal |
| Preceded by | Abdirashid Ali Shermarke |
| Succeeded by | Mohamed Siad Barre |
| 4th Speaker of the National Assembly of the Somali Republic | |
| In office March 1967 – October 1969 | |
| Preceded by | Ahmed Mohamed Obsiye |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1912 |
| Died | (aged 100)[1] |
| Party | Somali Youth League (SYL) |
| Spouse(s) | Baar Ismaan and Fadumo Meyre |
Early life
Politics
In 1946, Hussein joined the burgeoning, nationalist party of the Somali Youth Club (which later changed its name to the Somali Youth League).[citation needed] He served the SYL's head office in what was then known as Upper Jubba, which included several current regions of Southwestern Somalia.[citation needed]
He died in Nairobi, Kenya in 2012 at about 100 years old.[2] He was accorded a state funeral by the government in Mogadishu, Somalia, and was buried there on June 15, 2012.[3]