About Keith Ellison - The first US Congressman

History was made in the 2006 US national elections when Keith Ellison got elected to the US House of Representatives as the first Muslim.

Keith Ellison was a Democratic state senator from Minnesota and was elected from the fifth congressional district.

A few facts about Keith Ellison -

Keith is an African American and is Minnesota’s first non-Caucasian Congressman elected to the house of representatives
Keith converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism in his late teens while attending Wayne State University.
The media has portrayed Keith as an active Muslim who prays 5 times a day, fasts during the month of Ramadan and this is a practicing Muslim
Keith took the oath of his office on the Quran in January 2007
He has earlier been involved with the Nation of Islam only to terminate that association a few months later.



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