Garad Ali Garad Jama was the 19th garad of the

Dhulbahante Garadate The Dhulbahante Garadship is presumed to have began in the 16th century with Garad Shishore assuming the royal title in approximately 1530. During the 19th century, the Dhulbahante garadate morphed into a dual monarchy. The current Garad, Gara ...

, from 1966 until 1985, although he was the effective supreme Garad of the

Dhulbahante The Dhulbahante ( so, Dhulbahante, ar, دلبةنتئ) is a Somali clan family, part of the Harti clan which itself belongs to the largest Somali clan-family — the Darod. They are the traditional inhabitants of the physiographic Nugaal in its ...

from as early as the 1950s. He is best known for his role as head of the USP party.

USP political party

As the head of USP, he oversaw the successful election bids of 13 USP representatives, wherein Garad Ali Garad Jama himself became the first post-independence representative of Las Anod city:

References

{{Reflist People from Las Anod 20th-century Somalian people Somali sultans Dhulbahante Somali monarchs