As Speaker Mike Johnson likes to tell it, it was love at first sight when he first met Kelly Lary, the sunny, blonde former Kappa Delta who caught his eye in a red dress at the wedding of a mutual friend.
On their first date, they discovered they both wanted to name their first daughter Hannah and their first son Jack. Three weeks later, Mr.
Johnson confessed his love. They were engaged after six months and exactly 364 days later, Ms. Lary became Mrs. Johnson. It’s an uncomplicated origin story about a marriage that Mr.
Johnson, an evangelical Christian who has put his faith at the center of his political life and policy decisions, has made a focal point of his biography.