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

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