Mike Johnson
U.S. Representative for Louisiana
James Michael Johnson was born in January 1972 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He earned an undergraduate degree and a Juris Doctor from Louisiana State University. He became a constitutional lawyer, serving as senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom prior to his political career.
Johnson founded a nonprofit legal ministry and served on the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Johnson won the 8th District seat of the Louisiana House of Representatives unopposed.
Johnson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, assuming office in January 2017. He has won reelection three times. He was voted Speaker of the House of Representatives in October 2023 after Kevin McCarthy was removed from the position.
Johnson is married to Kelly, and they have five children. He is a Baptist.
In the News…
House Speaker Mike Johnson stated that the United States launched Operation Epic Fury as a defensive action against Iran’s missile threats. He said that there would have been “staggering losses“ and devastating casualties had America waited for Iran to strike first. The speaker also highlighted the alliance with Israel.
“Israel was determined to act in their own defense here, with or without American support,” the House speaker said. “Israel faced what they deemed to be an existential threat. Iran was building missiles at a radical, and at a rapid clip, to the point where our allies in the region could not keep up, as you know, Iran, has, long vowed to take out Israel, wipe it off the map.”
“Because Israel was determined to act with or without the U.S., our commander in chief and the administration and the officials… had to evaluate the threats to the U.S., to our troops, to our installations, to our assets in the region and beyond,” Speaker Johnson continued. “If Iran had begun to fire all of their missile arsenal – short and mid-range missiles – at our personnel and our assets and our installations, we would have suffered staggering losses, and if we had waited to respond before acting first, then those losses would have been far greater than if we had done what we did. That was their decision.”
He added, “I am convinced that they did the right thing.”
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The Honorable Mike Johnson
Representative for Louisiana
521 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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