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John Lewis

1940 - 2020

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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. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins and the Freedom Rides, was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, and was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Fulfilling many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States, in 1965 Lewis physically led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where, in an incident that became known as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and police attacked Lewis and the other marchers. A member of the Democratic Party, Lewis was first elected to the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Lewis has received more than 4,020,659 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). John Lewis is the 13,918th most popular politician (down from 10,556th in 2019), the 6,159th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,993rd in 2019) and the 395th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Lewis ranks 13,918 out of 19,576. Before him are Horacio Vásquez, Esau de' Buondelmonti, Pharnaces II of Phrygia, Ermesinde of Luxembourg, Countess of Namur, Per Borten, and Juan Bautista Gill. After him are Édouard Fritch, Tirigan, Lucius Cornelius Merula, George Maxwell Richards, Jacob Nena, and Neferu II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, John Lewis ranks 339. Before him are Norman Spinrad, Claude Dagens, Vladimir Korenev, Souleymane Cissé, Graham Allison, and Władysław Komar. After him are Antonella Ragno-Lonzi, Carole Pateman, Yambo Ouologuem, Gene Pitney, Lorella De Luca, and Jean-Claude Andruet. Among people deceased in 2020, John Lewis ranks 375. Before him are Murad Wilfried Hofmann, Allen Garfield, Tom Lister Jr., John Baldessari, Karin Lindberg, and Jimmy Cobb. After him are Vatroslav Mimica, John Ericson, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Germà Colón, Belaid Abdessalam, and Peter Bonetti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Lewis ranks 6,159 out of 20,380. Before him are Jimmy Cobb (1929), Graham Allison (1940), Hector Dyer (1910), Shane Black (1961), Jon Stewart (1962), and Amanda Righetti (1983). After him are Susan Howard (1944), Shawnee Smith (1969), Neal Stephenson (1959), Dinah Shore (1916), John Podesta (1949), and Robert R. Livingston (1746).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, John Lewis ranks 395. Before him are Geraldine Ferraro (1935), Anna Harrison (1775), Enoch L. Johnson (1883), Mike Lee (1971), Gina Raimondo (1971), and Liao Zhongkai (1877). After him are John Podesta (1949), Robert R. Livingston (1746), Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820), Gray Davis (1942), Alf Landon (1887), and Henry Lee III (1756).

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