The Honourable Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein مختار محمد حسين
Hussein in the 1960s
President of Somalia
Acting
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 Huddur, Italian Somaliland
Died	12 June 2012 (aged 100)[1] Nairobi, Kenya
Nationality	Somali
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; 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.

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

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]