Aden Adde

Aden Abdulle Osman Daar (Aaden Cabdulle Cusmaan Daar) (9 December 1908 – 8 June 2007), was a Somali politician.

The Honourable Aden Adde
ادم عبد االه عثمان دعر
Adde in the 1950s
1st President of Somalia
In office 1 July 1960 – 6 July 1967
Prime Minister	Abdullahi Issa Mohamud, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, Abdirizak Haji Hussein
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
Chairman of the National Legislative Assembly
In office 29 February 1956 – 1 July 1960
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Abdulcadir Muhammed Aden (1st Deputy),[1] Hagi Bashir Ismail (2nd Deputy)
Personal details
Born	(1908-12-09)9 December 1908 Beledweyne, Italian Somalia (now Somalia)
Died	8 June 2007(2007-06-08) (aged 98) Nairobi, Kenya
Nationality	Somali
Political party	Somali Youth League (SYL)

In February 1944, he joined the Somali Youth Club (later called the Somali Youth League). The group was a nationalist party that wanted independence for Somalia. Daar became a member of the party's steering board. In 1946, he was appointed as the secretary of one section of the party. He was chairman of the Somali Youth League from 1954 to 1956, and again from 1958 to 1959. In 1956, he was elected chairman of the Legislative Assembly.

When Somalia gained its independence on July 1, 1960, Daar was elected as the first president of Somalia. He was beaten in the 1967 presidential election against Abdirashid Ali Shermarke. He finished his term as president on June 10, 1967.

Daar died in hospital on 8 June 2007 at a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya at the age of 98.^[2][3][4]