Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein

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The Honourable Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein مختار محمد حسين
Hussein in the 1960s
Acting President of Somalia
In office October 15,1969 – October 21, 1969
Preceded by	Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
Succeeded by	Mohamed Siad Barre
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Somalia
In office July 1960 – March 1967
Preceded by	Abdulqadir Aden Zoobe
Personal details
Born	December 9, 1912 Huddur, Italian Somaliland
Died	June 12, 2012 (aged 99)[1] Nairobi, Kenya
Nationality	Somali
Political party	Somali Youth League (SYL)
Spouse(s)	Baar Ismaan and Fadumo Meyre

Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (Somali: Sheekh Mukhtaar Maxamed Xuseen, Arabic: الشيخ محمد حسين مختار‎; December 9, 1912 – June 12, 2012) was the Speaker of the Parliament of Somalia, and briefly an Acting President of Somalia in 1969.^[2]

Hussein was born into a Hadame family (part of the larger Rahaweyn clan), in the central town of Xuddur in the Bakool region.^[3]

In 1946, Hussein joined the burgeoning, nationalist party of the Somali Youth Club (which later changed its name to the Somali Youth League).^[3] He served the SYL's head office in what was then known as Upper Jubba, which included several current regions of Southwestern Somalia.^[3]

He died in Nairobi, Kenya in 2012 at 99 years old.^[4] He was accorded a state funeral by the government in Mogadishu, Somalia, and was buried there on June 15, 2012.^[5]