title: Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein
text: # Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein
  
  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.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Hussein was born into a Hadame family (part of the larger Rahaweyn clan), in the central town of Xuddur in the Bakool region.
  
  ## Politics
  
  In 1946, Hussein joined the burgeoning, nationalist party of the Somali Youth Club (which later changed its name to the Somali Youth League). He served the SYL's head office in what was then known as Upper Jubba, which included several current regions of Southwestern Somalia.
  
  He died in Nairobi, Kenya in 2012 at 99 years old. He was accorded a state funeral by the government in Mogadishu, Somalia, and was buried there on June 15, 2012.
  
  