Education
Johnson graduated from Corning High School in Corning, Arkansas, and Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, with a bachelor"s degree in Exercise Science.
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Blake Johnson
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Career
Since 1995, he has been a self-employed farmer raising rice and soybeans on family-owned land. He is affiliated with the Corning Baptist Church and the Gideons International, a Bible-distribution group. From 2005 to 2015, Johnson served on the Corning City Council, including a time on the Parks and Recreation Committee from 2006 to 2009.
In 2012, he ran in the general election against incumbent Democrat state Senator Robert F. Thompson.
He lost by 447 votes. Thompson polled 13,616 (508 percent) to Johnson"s 13,169 (492 percent).
In 2014, Johnson reversed the tide. In a stronger Republican year than in 2012, he unseated Thompson, 12,096 votes (538 percent) to 10,405 (462 percent).
Johnson sits on these Senate committees: (1) Education, (2) Agriculture, Forestry, and Economic Development, (3) Senate Rules, Resolutions, and Memorials, (4) Joint Public Retirement and Social Security Programs, and (5) Legislative Joint Auditing.
In February 2015, Johnson supported House Bill 1228, authored by Republican Bob Ballinger of Carroll County in northwestern Arkansas. The measure sought to prohibit government from imposing a burden on the free exercise of religion. The legislation was subsequently passed by a large margin in the House and signed into law in revised form, Bachelor of Science 975, by Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson.
That same month, Johnson joined the large Senate majority, with only seven dissenters, which reduced payments of unemployment compensation, another measure signed into law by Governor Hutchinson.
Membership
Johnson is a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
