Frank Shannon

Who is Frank Shannon?

Francis Xavier Shannon, Jr., better known as Frank Shannon, was a 2004 Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives for district 56, comprising parts of Tampa and the suburbs east of Tampa in Hillsborough County, Florida.

Raised in the heavily Irish Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, Shannon moved to Tampa in 1973. Shannon attended Jesuit High School and graduated from Tampa Catholic High School in 1979. Shannon went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with a minor in history from the University of South Florida in Tampa. For three years in the early 1980s, Shannon wrote sports for The Tampa Tribune. He eventually worked in banking until 2003. It was during his early professional years that Shannon's political activity started. He spent years as a member of the Hillsborough County Republican executive committee, and was a board member and longtime president of Right to Life of Hillsborough County.