Johnny Isakson

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Johnny Isakson
George W. Bush and Senator Isakson aboard Air Force One .

Johnny Isakson (* 28. December 1944 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He served as the United States Senator for the state of Georgia from January 2005 to December 2019 .

Life

Isakson was born in Atlanta in 1944 as a descendant of Swedish immigrants . After finishing school, Isakson served in the Georgia Air National Guard from 1966 to 1972 . Isakson then studied at the University of Georgia , then opened the first office of the real estate company Northside Realty in Cobb County . Isakson became president of the company in 1979 and led the company for 22 years until 2001.

In 1974 Isakson became a member of the Republican Party. He held his first political mandate from 1976 to 1990 as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. He declined to run again to run for governor of Georgia, but was defeated by Democrat Zell Miller . Isakson served in the Georgia Senate from 1993 to 1996 . In 1996 he sought for the first time the election in the US Senate , but lost in the Republican primary against Guy Millner, who in turn was defeated in the main election against the Democrat Max Cleland .

When Newt Gingrich , up to then Speaker of the US House of Representatives , resigned his mandate in early 1999 despite re-election, Johnny Isakson ran the by-election in the sixth congressional electoral district of Georgia and won with 65 percent of the vote ahead of Christina Fawcett Jeffrey, who also belongs to the Republicans ( 25.4 percent). He took up his mandate in the House of Representatives from February 23, 1999 and, after being re-elected several times, remained there until January 3, 2005. On that day, he moved to the Senate within Congress , having previously voted in the 2004 election with a share of the vote 57.9 percent had prevailed against Democratic Congresswoman Denise Majette (40 percent). In 2010 he ran for re-election; his opponent from the Democratic Party was Georgia's Labor Secretary Mike Thurmond , against whom he was able to prevail. Since he was re-elected in the 2016 election , his current mandate runs until January 3, 2023. In August 2019, Isakson announced that he would be giving up his Senate seat at the end of the year for health reasons.

Isakson is married and has three children; he lives in a suburb of Marietta . He is a Methodist and teaches in their Sunday school .

Member of senate committees

Web links

Commons : Johnny Isakson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johnny Isakson: Floor Statement on Immigration Reform Remarks as Delivered on the Senate Floor. In: Isakson.Senate.gov , April 13, 2005.
  2. ↑ Jesse Byrnes: GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson to resign at end of year. August 28, 2019, accessed on August 28, 2019 .
  3. ^ Johnny Isakson's Position Statement on Social Values. In: Isakson.Senate.gov.
personal data
SURNAME Isakson, Johnny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia