Before Mike Johnson became House speaker, he lobbied for a Noah’s Ark theme park—and it’s exactly how you picture it

Thanks to Johnson’s lawyering, Kentucky taxpayers helped fund a life-size replica of the Biblical boat.

The new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is Mike Johnson, a four-term Republican from Louisiana’s 4th district who’s a so-called social conservative’s social conservative. He’s also the least-experienced person to hold that job in 140 years, on top of being someone who kept a profile so low since arriving in 2015 that his own district’s local newspaper, the Baton Rouge Advocate, calls him “largely unknown.”

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