Representative, Georgia · 1987–2020
John Lewis
Civil-rights organizer on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, then a generation in the House on voting rights.
John Lewis is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Representative, Georgia, 1987–2020. The placement note is: Civil-rights organizer on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, then a generation in the House on voting rights.
The dot is economics -36 and authority -28. That is left of center on economics. The other axis sits toward liberty. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: The vote is sacred, and the movement does not end at the bridge. Done: He spent thirty years in the House on voting rights. The later federal bill that carried his name did not pass while he lived. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Russ Feingold (-28 / -24) and George McGovern (-46 / -30). Nearness is not a school of thought.
This page does not add votes that are not in the placement note. The bills themselves are in the Congressional Record for those years.