Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.
Democrat · GA-4 · U.S. House
GA-4 — U.S. House
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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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.7 years
- First took office
- 2007 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 60 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 72
- Decatur, GA · 770-987-2291
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
- 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)
Issue profile
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.
On the political map
Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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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 · 95 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 44 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
Most and least aligned members
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Recent notable votes
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