LegiStorm

Summary

Biographical

Family:

Education

• Fisk University - BA, religion and philosophy (1967)

• American Baptist Theological Seminary - BA (1961)

• Pike County (Ala.) Training School - High school diploma (1958)

Office History

Election Results

• 2019 (Nov. 6, 2018 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 100.00%

  Democrat

• 2017 (Nov. 8, 2016 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 84.44%

  Democrat
  Douglas Anthony Bell, 15.56%

  Republican

• 2015 (Nov. 4, 2014 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 100.00%

  Democrat

• 2013 (Nov. 6, 2012 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 84.39%

  Democrat
  Howard Stopeck, 15.61%

  Republican

• 2011 (Nov. 2, 2010 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 73.72%

  Democrat
  Fenn Little, 26.28%

  Republican

• 2009 (Nov. 4, 2008 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 99.95%

  Democrat

• 2007 (Nov. 7, 2006 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 100.00%

  Democrat

• 2005 (Nov. 2, 2004 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 100.00%

  Democrat

• 2003 (Nov. 5, 2002 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 100.00%

  Democrat

• 2001 (Nov. 7, 2000 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 77.18%

  Democrat
  Hank Schwab, 22.82%

  Republican

• 1999 (Nov. 3, 1998 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 78.51%

  Democrat
  John H Lewis Sr, 21.49%

  Republican

• 1997 (Nov. 5, 1996 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 100.00%

  Democrat

• 1995 (Nov. 8, 1994 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 69.13%

  Democrat
  Dale Dixon, 30.87%

  Republican

• 1993 (Nov. 3, 1992 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 72.13%

  Democrat
  Paul Stabler, 27.87%

  Republican

• 1991 (Nov. 6, 1990 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 75.59%

  Democrat
  J W Tibbs, 24.41%

  Republican

• 1989 (Nov. 8, 1988 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 78.20%

  Democrat
  J W Tibbs Jr, 21.80%

  Republican

• 1987 (Nov. 4, 1986 election)

  5th Congressional District of Georgia
  John Robert Lewis, 75.31%

  Democrat
  Portia A Scott, 24.69%

  Republican

Employment History

• City of Atlanta, Ga. (1982-1986)

  City Councilmember

• National Consumer Cooperative Bank (1980-1986)

  Community Affairs Director

• ACTION (1977-1980)

  Director

Associated Organizations

• House Majority Fund

• John Lewis for Congress (Georgia)

• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council (Feb. 2019-July 2020)

  Trustee

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1963-1966)

  Chair

Awards

• Spirit of Enterprise Award (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) (June 2020)

• Walter P. Reuther Humanitarian Award (Wayne State University) (Feb. 2020)

• Chairman’s Award (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) (Feb. 2020)

• Democracy Award for Member Lifetime Achievement (Congressional Management Foundation) (2020)

• Edward M. Kennedy National Service Lifetime Leadership Award (Voices for National Service) (2020)

• Wellstone Award (United Steelworkers) (May 2018)

• Eleanor Holmes Norton Award (May 2018)

• Distinguished Community Health Advocate Award (National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.) (2017)

• Elie Wiesel Award (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) (May 4, 2016)

• Congressional Patriot Award (Bipartisan Policy Center) (Feb. 2016)

• Liberty Medal (National Constitution Center) (2016)

• Honorary doctorate (Brown University) (May 2012)

• Honorary Doctor of Law (University of Connecticut School of Law) (May 2012)

• Honorary Doctor of Law (University of New Hampshire School of Law) (May 2012)

• Life and Liberty Award (New Hampshire Supreme Court Society) (May 2012)

• Honorary doctorate (University of Pennsylvania) (May 2012)

• Presidential Medal of Freedom (White House) (Feb. 2011)

• Outstanding National Service Advocacy Award (Voices for National Service) (2011)

• Best of Congress Award (Working Mother Magazine) (Sept. 2010)

• LBJ Liberty and Justice for All Award (Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation) (2010)

• Common Ground Award (Search for Common Ground USA) (Oct. 2009)

• Dole Leadership Prize (Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics) (Sept. 2007)

• Lincoln Medal (Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)) (June 2007)

• U.S. Senator John Heinz Award (Multiplying Good Inc.) (2006)

• Golden Plate Award (American Academy of Achievement) (2004)

• Spingarn Medal (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) (2002)

• Ansel Adams Award (Wilderness Society) (2001)

• Profile in Courage Award (John F. Kennedy Library Foundation) (2001)

• Four Freedoms Award (Roosevelt Institute) (1999)

• Wallenberg Medal (University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)) (1999)

Publications

• March (Book Three) (2018)

• March (Book Two) (2015)

  Co-authors: Aydin, Andrew V.B.
  

• March (Book One) (2013)

  Co-authors: Aydin, Andrew V.B.
  

• Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change (2012)

• Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (1999)

Official Signature

Privately Financed Travel

96 trips taken between 2005 - 2016 costing $93,870

See map of trips

Personal Financial Disclosures

Disclosures as a member:

Congressional Staff

Caught Our Eye

• Salary records show unusual hiring for one-month member

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 5, 2021
  For someone elected to Congress for a one-month term, former Rep. Kwanza Hall (D-Ga.) had big ambitions for his staff. read more

• EY picks up John Lewis aide

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 16, 2020
  Professional-services network Ernst & Young has paired booming revenue with a new hire from the Hill. read more

• Rep. DeGette staffer leaves the Hill to work for a major health insurance provider

  Posted by Katie Barrows on Sept. 27, 2013
  The staff director for Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) has moved off the Hill to join the ranks of a major health insurance company. read more

• Posted by Matt Von Lunen on May 20, 2013
  Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) lost his tax policy expert to K Street when the former staffer took a job with a trade association for tech innovators. read more

• One month left for 41 representatives to file financial disclosures

  Posted by Daimon Eklund on July 19, 2012
  The personal financial disclosures of members of Congress continue to trickle in two months after the initial deadline. read more

• More member financial disclosures added

  Posted by Daimon Eklund on June 18, 2012
  LegiStorm today added the financial disclsoures of twelve more House of Representatives members who filed annual financial disclosures since the initial batch was released by the House last week. read more

• 92 members of Congress did not file financial disclosures

  Posted by Daimon Eklund on June 14, 2012
   The filings of 17 senators and 75 representatives were not available when the personal financial dislcosures were released Thursday. read more

• Privately funded congressional trips hit new highs in 2011

  Posted by LegiStorm on Jan. 26, 2012
  Private interests spent a record amount to send members of Congress and their staff on trips on 2011, and the individual trips were longer and costlier than ever before.There were 1,600 privately funded congressional trips in 2011, worth a total of more than $5.8 million, the largest amount since ethics reforms were enacted in 2007 in the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal. The total amount is the highest since 2005, when a record 4,917 trips were taken totaling $9.9 million. The record for money spent came in 2004, when 4,780 trips cost nearly $10.4 million. read more

• Posted by LegiStorm on Nov. 18, 2011
  Michael Collins, the embattled chief of staff for Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), has finally amended his personal financial disclosures to acknowledge campaign income that he failed to report previously. read more

• Rep. Johnson's amended disclosure reveals lack of trip reporting

  Posted by LegiStorm on July 12, 2011
  Four members of the Congressional Black Caucus failed to file required trip disclosures for a conference organized by a one-time congressional aide and now-convicted felon. The conference came one week after several of their CBC colleagues were caught on videotape at a Caribbean conference whose lack of disclosure of corporate underwriters led to a House ethics committee rebuke and criminal charges. read more

• Top House leadership aide fails to file accurate disclosures (Corrected)

  Posted by LegiStorm on July 5, 2011
  The House Ethics Committee rarely announces it is investigating congressional staff, but the committee announced Friday it is doing just that with two staffers.One was Michael Collins, chief of staff to Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who serves as senior chief deputy whip for the Democrats and is an iconic leader of the civil rights movement. The ethics committee did not announce what it was investigating but LegiStorm's analysis of his financial disclosures suggests several areas of weakness in his filings: read more

• Trip tally 2009: Israel and beyond

  Posted by LegiStorm on Feb. 24, 2010
  Despite last year's bitter partisan spats, it seems there was at least one area where Republicans and Democrats saw eye-to-eye -- free trips to Israel. read more