1. Jarvis Diallo Johnson was born on September 27,1971 and is an American entrepreneur and politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives.
20 Facts About Jarvis Johnson
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In 1996, Johnson graduated from Texas Southern University with a degree in speech communications.
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In 2005, Jarvis Johnson ran for Houston City Council District B, a seat held by term limited Carol Mims Galloway.
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Jarvis Johnson was reelected in the 2007 elections and 2009 elections.
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Jarvis Johnson served as chair of the City of Houston's Human Services and Technology Access Committee.
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Jarvis Johnson served on the Houston City Council's Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs, and the Housing and Community Development Committee, among others.
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In 2010, a police officer claimed Jarvis Johnson failed to stop his vehicle when he tried to pull him over for speeding.
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Jarvis Johnson was arrested and charged with evading arrest, and later a grand jury cleared him of the charges, deciding there was not evidence that he did anything wrong.
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On January 5,2010, Jarvis Johnson announced his candidacy for Texas's 18th Congressional District seat, a seat held by incumbent Sheila Jackson Lee.
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When Jarvis Johnson announced his candidacy in 2010, he had just won a third term to a council seat within the 18th Congressional District.
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Jarvis Johnson ran in the 2016 primary election, advanced to the runoff election, and won a special election called to determine an interim representative for 2016 and won the primary election runoff.
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Since he was unopposed in November 2016, Jarvis Johnson winning the special election and runoff meant he was the District 139 state representative who would succeed Sylvester Turner.
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When Jarvis Johnson ran for the Texas Senate, Charlene Ward Jarvis Johnson won the Democratic primary to replace him.
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Jarvis Johnson ran unopposed, to be the district's state representative in 2025.
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Jarvis Johnson advocated for education funding reform for Texas' HBCUs, noting disparity between them and other higher education institutions.
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Jarvis Johnson was the sole member to speak against HB 2908, a law codifying protections for police and peace officers, strongly opposing the bill on the grounds that it could make questioning an officer an act of resistance and therefore a hate crime.
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For three consecutive legislative sessions, Jarvis Johnson filed bills to end Confederate Heroes Day as a state holiday.
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Jarvis Johnson filed multiple bills to apply pollution limits for concrete plants, which affect the air quality for districts such as the ones he represented, but these bills did not pass.
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Jarvis Johnson announced his campaign for the Texas Senate in the 15th district, the seat vacated by incumbent Democrat John Whitmire upon winning the 2023 Houston mayoral election.
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Jarvis Johnson was defeated in the runoff and in the Democraty primary to a full term by Cook.