Georgia Rep. and civil rights icon John Lewis died Friday, several months after he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer
A staff member brings flowers to the House floor on Capitol Hill before a moment of silence for civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis, on July 20, 2020.The House on Monday stood for an emotional moment of silence for Georgia Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who died last week from pancreatic cancer.
Several people on the dais wept as the House stood in silence, heads bowed. When Pelosi tried to move on, those gathered interrupted with sustained applause.“Our hero, our colleague, our brother, our friend received and answered his final summons from God almighty,” said Rep. Sanford Bishop, the dean of the Georgia delegation.
“It was a sad one,” Pelosi said of their conversation Thursday. “We never talked about his dying until that day.”
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