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United States Representative Born: October 4, 1982 (age 39 years), Mogadishu, Somalia Office: Representative (Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party-MN 5th District) since 2019 Spouse: Tim Mynett (m. 2020), Ahmed Hirsi (m. 2018–2019), Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (m. 2009–2017) Children: Isra Hirsi, Adnan Hirsi, Ilwad Hirsi Books: This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman Nationality: American, Somali Education: North Dakota State University (2011), Thomas Edison High School Birthday: October 4, 1981 Age: 40 Years, 40 Year Old Females Sun Sign: Libra Also Known As: Ilhan Abdullahi Omar Born Country: Somalia Born In: Mogadishu, Somalia Famous As: U.S. Representative Black Leaders Political Leaders Spouse/Ex-: Tim Mynett (M. 2020), Ahmed Hirsi (M. 2018–2019), Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (M. 2009–2017) Father: Nur Omar Mohamed Mother: Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein Siblings: Sahra Noor Children: Adnan Hirsi, Ilwad Hirsi, Isra Hirsi Notable Alumni: North Dakota State University City: Mogadishu, Somalia Education: North Dakota State University (2011), Edison High School
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In 2002, Omar became engaged to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (né Aden). Omar has said that they had an unofficial faith-based Islamic marriage. The couple had two children together. Omar has said that they divorced within their faith tradition in 2008. The next year, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British Somali. According to Omar, in 2011 she and Elmi had a faith-based divorce and she reconciled with Hirsi, with whom she had a third child in 2012. In 2017, Elmi and Omar legally divorced, and in 2018, Omar and Hirsi legally married. On October 7, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Hirsi, citing an “irretrievable breakdown” of the marriage. The divorce was finalized on November 5, 2019. In March 2020, Omar married Tim Mynett, a political consultant whose political consulting firm, the E Street Group, received $2.78 million in contracts from Omar’s campaign during the 2020 cycle. The campaign’s contract with Mynett’s firm became a focus of criticism by her Democratic primary opponent and conservative critics that received significant local and national media attention. On November 17, 2020, Omar’s campaign terminated its contract with Mynett’s firm, saying the termination was to “make sure that anybody who is supporting our campaign with their time or financial support feels there is no perceived issue with that support.” Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi is one of the three principal organizers of the school strike for climate in the US. On June 15, 2020, Omar’s father died of complications from COVID-19. Youngest of seven siblings, Ilhan Abdullahi Omar was born on October 4, 1982, in Mogadishu, Somalia, to teacher-trainer Nur Omar Mohamed. She was raised in Baidoa by her father and grandfather after her mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, a Benadiri, died when she was two. When she was eight, her family fled from civil war-torn Somalia and took refuge in a Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya for four years before arriving in New York in 1992. They secured asylum in the U.S. in 1995 and eventually settled in Minneapolis, where her father drove taxi for some time before getting a job at the post office. Ilhan Omar, who became a U.S. citizen in 2000, studied at Edison High School, where she volunteered as a student organizer. She earned her bachelor’s degrees in political science and international studies from North Dakota State University in 2011 and was a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. In 2002, Ilhan Omar became engaged to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, with whom she had a faith-based marriage, as her application for a marriage license was not finalized. They had two children together, but separated in 2008. Her second marriage was to British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in 2009, but the two ended up having a faith-based divorce in 2011. Later that year, she got back together with her first husband Hirsi, and welcomed their third child the following year. Omar and Hirsi were finally legally married in 2018, one year after she obtained a legal divorce from Elmi. One of her daughters, Isra Hirsi, is a principal organizer of the ‘school strike for climate’ movement. Ilhan Omar’s grandfather, Abukar, was the director of Somalia’s National Marine Transport. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4th, 1982) is an American politician working as the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district since 2019. She is the first Somali American, the first naturalized citizen from Africa, and the first woman of color to hold the first office from Minnesota. She is also one of the first two Muslim women to work in Congress. She is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Before her election to Congress, Omar worked in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 – 2019, representing part of Minneapolis. Her congressional district includes all of Minneapolis and some of its suburbs. Omar is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has advocated for a living wage, affordable housing, universal healthcare, student loan debt forgiveness, the protection of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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