James Hohmann @jameshohmann
In St. Louis Park, Minn., 23-year-old Nadia Mohamad became the first Muslim woman and first Somali elected to the city council. In Syracuse, N.Y., Chol Majok, a 34-year-old who fled violence in South Sudan, became the first refugee elected to public office in that college town. — PolitiTweet.org