Mike Johnson (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Louisiana's 4th Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 2017. His current term ends on January 3, 2027.
Johnson (Republican Party) won re-election to the U.S. House to represent Louisiana's 4th Congressional District outright in the primary on November 5, 2024, after the general election was canceled. Johnson was re-elected Speaker of the U.S. House on January 3, 2025, in the first round of voting.
He was first elected Speaker on October 25, 2023, in the fourth round of floor voting conducted after the House voted to remove former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on October 3. McCarthy's removal as speaker marked the first time in United States history a motion to vacate was used to remove a speaker of the House.
Johnson had served in the U.S. House for 6.8 years when he was elected speaker. That’s the shortest House tenure for a newly-elected speaker since John G.
Carlisle (D), who was elected speaker in 1883 after serving for 6.7 years in Congress. Johnson was vice chairman of the House Republican Conference.
Read moreFrom 2021 to 2023, Johnson also served as chair of the Republican Study Committee, the largest Republican caucus in Congress. Before joining Congress, Johnson was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, representing District 8 from 2015 to 2017.
A lawyer, Johnson defended Louisiana's same-sex marriage ban before the state's Supreme Court and served as a representative and attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a socially conservative Christian law firm. In an interview with Fox News following his election as speaker, Johnson said: "Someone asked me today in the media, they said people are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?
I said, Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That's my worldview, that's what I believe.
... But here's the thing.
Everybody comes to the House of Representatives with deep personal convictions, but all of our personal convictions are not going to become law. This a big body of people.
There's 435 members in the House. You have to argue and find consensus in all of that."
Johnson served on former President Donald Trump’s defense team during his 2021 impeachment. In December 2020, Johnson helped gather signatures from more than 100 Republican U.S. House members for an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results in four states. The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate results in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
