Anthony "Alann" Johnson is an American politician from the state of

Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

. He is a member of the

Alabama House of Representatives The Alabama House of Representatives is the lower house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature (United States), state legislature of state of Alabama. The House is composed of 105 members representing an equal number of districts, with ...

. Johnson is a former legislative aide to the Alabama House. He worked as the executive director of Leadership Jefferson County and an associate minister at Zion Star Missionary Baptist Church. He won a

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on April 1, 2014, to succeed Demetrius Newton as the representative from District 53. The district has been eliminated through

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, and Johnson will not run for reelection to the state House in the November 2014 elections. Johnson graduated from the

Morehouse School of Religion The Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) is a consortium of five predominantly African-American denominational Christian seminaries in Atlanta, Georgia, operating together as a professional graduate school of theology. It is the largest ...

. He is the grandson of Nelson Henry Smith, Jr., a minister associated with the Civil Rights Movement.

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Living people Democratic Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives Interdenominational Theological Center alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century members of the Alabama Legislature {{Alabama-politician-stub