Johnny Isakson | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Johnny Isakson


00:01:43 1 Early life, education, and real estate career
00:03:06 2 Early political career (1974–1998)
00:03:18 2.1 Georgia House of Representatives
00:03:58 2.2 1990 gubernatorial election
00:04:41 2.3 Georgia Senate
00:05:01 2.4 1996 U.S. Senate election
00:05:51 3 U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2005)
00:05:58 3.1 Elections
00:07:01 3.2 Legislation
00:07:24 3.3 Committee assignments
00:07:37 4 U.S. Senate (2005–present)
00:07:43 4.1 Elections
00:09:20 4.2 Legislation
00:09:34 4.3 Current committee assignments
00:10:21 5 Political positions
00:11:08 5.1 Abortion
00:11:24 5.2 Environment
00:12:14 5.3 Gun law
00:12:58 5.4 Healthcare
00:13:14 5.5 Immigration
00:13:47 6 Personal life
00:14:21 7 Electoral history



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John Hardy Isakson (born December 28, 1944) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Georgia, in office since 2005, and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he represented Georgia's 6th Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Isakson served in the Georgia Air National Guard (1966–1972) and graduated from the University of Georgia. He opened a real estate branch for Northside Realty and later served 22 years as the company's president. After a failed bid for the Georgia House of Representatives in 1974, he was elected in 1976. He served seven terms, including four as minority leader. Isakson was the Republican candidate for governor of Georgia in 1990, but lost. Two years later, he was elected to the Georgia Senate and served one term. He unsuccessfully ran in the Republican primary in the 1996 U.S. Senate elections.
After 6th District Congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich resigned, Isakson ran in the February 1999 special election to succeed him, winning by a 40-point margin. He ran for the U.S. Senate in November 2004 after conservative Democratic incumbent Zell Miller opted not to run for re-election. With the backing of much of Georgia's Republican establishment, he won both the primary and general elections by large margins. He is serving his third term after re-election to the Senate in 2016. He became the senior Senator when Saxby Chambliss retired in 2015.