EducationTuskegee University — B.A. in Agribusiness

Notable personal detailsShawn Harris is a Democratic politician and U.S. Army retired brigadier general who has run for Congress in Georgia's 14th congressional district. He is a Polk County cattle producer and operates a grass-fed cattle farm in Rockmart, Georgia. Harris grew up in Blakely, Georgia, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after high school, and later served in the U.S. Army, including a combat deployment as an infantry commander in Afghanistan and a 2014 mission in Liberia during the Ebola outbreak. He earned a B.A. in Agribusiness from Tuskegee University and completed strategic studies at the U.S. Army War College.