T.W. Shannon Biography

Tahrohon Wayne "T.W." Shannon (born February 24, 1978 in Lawton, Oklahoma) is an American politician from Oklahoma. Shannon was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives from his hometown of Lawton in 2006. In a ceremony on January 8, 2013, Shannon took the oath of office to be Oklahoma’s first African-American Speaker of the House. Shannon stepped down as the Speaker of the House to run for the Republican nomination in the special Senate election to succeed U.S. Senator Tom Coburn.