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WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Mike Johnson has been elected by his fellow Republicans to serve as speaker of the House of Representatives, after three weeks of turmoil and three failed candidates.
Prior to Congress, Johnson was a lawyer who mainly worked on religious freedom issues, successfully defending Louisiana's same sex marriage ban in 2004. He was elected to the Louisiana statehouse in 2015 and ran for Congress successfully in 2016. He now represents Louisiana's fourth congressional districts, which occupies the northwestern corner of the state and includes his hometown of Shreveport.Johnson is a conservative who is perhaps best known for his defense of former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
He opposes same sex marriage and introduced a bill in 2022 that would have banned schools from promoting or discussing gender identity.
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