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T.W. Shannon, a rising star in the GOP becomes Oklahoma’s first African American speaker of the House
New Speaker of Oklahoma Tahrohon Wayne Shannon
Tahrohon Wayne Shannon, 34, is Oklahoma’s first African American Speaker of the House, its youngest ever, and the first African American Republican speaker in the country since Reconstruction, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Shannon is also part of the Republican Party’s effort to advance a more diverse public face, after America elected — then re-elected — its first African American president. Obama won 93 percent of the African American voter and 60 percent of those under 30 years, sending the Republican party a clear message that it needs to break down demographic barriers.
He is a rising star in the GOP and was invited to the coveted GOP conference, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Speaker Shannon is a sixth-generation Oklahoman.
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