Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.

Democrat · GA-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Henry Calvin Johnson Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is anchored in Atlanta's inner eastern suburbs, including the majority of DeKalb County—which encompasses Decatur, Lithonia, Stone Mountain, Dunwoody, Brookhaven, and Doraville—as well as parts of Gwinnett County, including Peachtree Corners, Lawrenceville, Duluth, and Norcross, along with a small portion of the city of Atlanta.

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Record of service

In office: 19.6 years
First took office: 2007 (10 terms)
Seniority: 60 of 437 by time served
Age: 71

District offices

Decatur, GA · 770-987-2291

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2020

−$518k

2021

−$518k

2022

−$518k

2023

−$518k

2024

−$518k

2025

−$518k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $15k – $50k
Liabilities: $350k – $750k
Net worth: −$735k – −$300k
Since 2020: +$0

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.61

Healthcare

D+0.73

Immigration & Border

D+0.88

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.87

Crime & Policing

D+0.54

Defense & Veterans

D+0.22

Economy & Labor

D+0.58

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.37

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.78

Government & Democracy

D+0.85

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.'s voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

93%Closest

Green Party

89%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

86%

Communist Party USA

86%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

30%

On the political map

Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Jr.sits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Jr.'s 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.