Hank Johnson grew up in Washington, DC His father worked for the Bureau of Prisons and was the director of classifications and paroles.
37 Facts About Hank Johnson
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From 1989 to 2001, Hank Johnson served as an associate judge of the DeKalb County magistrate's court.
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Hank Johnson was elected to the DeKalb County Commission in 2000 and served from 2001 to 2006.
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Hank Johnson won with 41,178 votes to McKinney's 28,832.
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Hank Johnson made aggressive use of the internet to court supporters and attract national attention to his primary challenge to McKinney.
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Hank Johnson was the first Congressional candidate invited to blog for The Hill's Congress Blog, typically reserved for members of Congress.
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On July 30,2007, Hank Johnson was the first Democratic congressman in Georgia to publicly endorse Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.
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On November 4,2012, Hank Johnson won an uncontested general election.
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On November 4,2014, Hank Johnson won an uncontested general election.
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On November 8,2016, Hank Johnson won reelection over Republican Victor Armendariz.
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On November 6,2018, Hank Johnson won reelection over Republican Joe Profit.
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On November 3,2020, Hank Johnson won reelection over Republican Johsie Ezammudeen.
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On November 8,2022, Hank Johnson won reelection over Republican Jonathan Chavez.
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On February 8,2007, Hank Johnson introduced his first bill: a resolution requesting that the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates take US troops off of street patrol duty in Iraq.
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On May 24,2007, Hank Johnson voted to cut funding for the Iraq War unless provisions included binding requirements upon the Iraqi government.
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Hank Johnson has been a critic of Israel's occupation policies and has not altered his stance despite criticism.
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Hank Johnson was purported to have said Palestinian homes were stolen or destroyed.
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The remark was picked up by Adam Kredo for The Washington Free Beacon, who reported Hank Johnson as having likened Jewish Israelis in the West Bank to termites.
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Dov Wilker of the American Jewish Committee was reported as saying Hank Johnson had compared Jewish Israelis to "vermin" and was using a centuries-old anti-Semitic trope.
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Hank Johnson apologized on Twitter for his "poor choice of words" but added that Israeli settlements were undermining the two-state solution.
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Hank Johnson has supported legislation aimed at strengthening the US civil justice system.
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Hank Johnson voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout bill in November 2008.
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Hank Johnson voted for the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the stimulus package supported by Democrats in Congress and President Obama.
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In 2009, Hank Johnson demanded censure of Representative Joe Wilson after Wilson shouted "you lie" during Obama's speech to a joint session of the 111th United States Congress on September 9,2009, about his plan for health care reform; Hank Johnson argued that the comment had an unseen racial undertone and that, if Wilson was not formally rebuked, "we will have people with white hoods running through the countryside again".
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In 2014, Hank Johnson was named the 18th most effective Democrat in the 112th Congress according to a study by Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.
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Hank Johnson was ranked higher than any of his Republican colleagues from Georgia.
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Hank Johnson was a member of the United States House Judiciary Task Force on Judicial Impeachment, a task force of the House Judiciary Committee created in 2008.
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In 2009, Hank Johnson was in the unanimous majority voting to adopt all four articles of impeachment against Kent.
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Hank Johnson was thereafter appointed and served as an impeachment manager for Kent's impeachment trial.
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Hank Johnson was appointed and served as an impeachment manager for Porteous's impeachment trial.
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On September 24,2019, Hank Johnson called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump due to the Trump-Ukraine scandal.
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Hank Johnson sat on the House Committee on the Judiciary, which played a significant role in the inquiry.
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Hank Johnson is married to attorney Mereda Davis Hank Johnson; they have two children.
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In December 2009, Hank Johnson revealed that he had been battling Hepatitis C for over a decade, which resulted in slow speech and a tendency to regularly get "lost in thought in the middle of a discussion".
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Hank Johnson said he learned he had the disease in 1998 but did not know how he contracted it.
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Hank Johnson was treated with a combination of ribavirin and interferon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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In February 2010, Hank Johnson successfully completed an experimental treatment for Hepatitis C, which resulted in restored mental acuity, weight gain and increased energy.