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Abraham Jamal Hamadeh (born May 15, 1991) is an American politician, attorney, U.S. Army intelligence officer, and former prosecutor currently serving as the U.S representative for Arizona's 8th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he is the first Arab American elected to Congress from Arizona. Born into a Syrian immigrant family in Chicago and raised in Phoenix, Hamadeh graduated with a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arizona. After joining the United States Army as an intelligence officer in 2016, Hamadeh began his legal career as a prosecutor in the Tucson City Prosecutor's Office and later in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office before being deployed to Saudi Arabia in 2020. In 2022, Hamadeh was the Republican nominee for Arizona attorney general, losing to Democratic nominee Kris Mayes by 280 votes. Hamadeh was elected to Congress in 2024, defeating Democratic nominee Greg Whitten after winning a crowded Republican primary.

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