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John R. Lewis (born November 2, 1954) is a Republican politician from California who represented Orange County in the California State Senate from 1991 until 2000 and in the California State Assembly from 1980 until 1991. [1] He currently serves as the President of the Lewis Consulting Group. [2]
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023 is proposed voting rights legislation named after civil rights activist John Lewis.The bill would restore and strengthen parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, most notably its requirement for states and jurisdictions with a history of voting rights violations to seek federal approval before enacting certain changes to their voting laws. [1]
The bill would require states with recent histories of discrimination to get federal "preclearance" to change their voting laws.
ATLANTA (AP) — Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Friday at age 80.
John Lewis (1940–2020), United States Congressman John Lewis (California politician) (born 1954), former California State Senator John Randolph Lewis (1834-1900), soldier and administrator
John Wood Lewis Sr. (1801–1865), Confederate States of America Senator; John Lewis (Shawnee leader) (c. 1760 – 1826), Native American leader of the Shawnee in Lewistown, Ohio; John F. Lewis (1818–1895), US Senator from Virginia; John H. Lewis (1830–1929), US Representative from Illinois; John V. Lewis (died 1913), Ohio state senator
TROY, Ala. (AP) — There’s now a historic marker at the one-story brick house in Alabama where the late civil rights leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis grew up as one of 11 children.