Congressman John Lewis diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer FILE PHOTO: Atlanta congressman Rep. John Lewis announced Sunday he has been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images) (Rick Diamond/Getty Images/Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes the stage with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., right, during a rally Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Atlanta, joined by fellow Democrats sit-in on the House floor, in an attempt to force votes on gun control legislation in the wake of the June 12 Orlando massacre.(Mike Doyle/Twitter)
John Lewis, who now represents Georgia in the U.S. House, speaks at the March on Washington.
Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed and Congressman John Lewis met the President, too.
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia waves to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Rep. John Lewis joins Monica Pearson on stage.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, arm-in-arm with Congressman John Lewis, lines up with Martin Luther King, III, third from right, and his wife Arndrea King, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, second from left, prepare for the start of the march towards the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial after the rally at the Lincoln Memorial, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Radio host Tom Joyner, left, greets Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he arrives to speak at a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III join other politicians and activists to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I have a Dream' speech on the National Mall on August 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. A commemorative march and a rally along the historic route followed in 1963 is led by civil rights leaders Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)
Civil Rights leaders pose in the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. Pictured are, standing from left, director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice Matthew Ahmann, Rabbi Joachim Prinz (1902 - 1988), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader John Lewis, Protestant minister Eugene Carson Blake (1906 - 1985), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leader Floyd McKissick (1922 - 1991), and labor union leader Walter Reuther (1907 - 1970); sitting from left, National Urban League executive director Whitney Young (1921 - 1971), unidentified, labor union leader A Philip Randolph (1889 - 1979), Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leader Roy Wilkins (1901 - 1981). The march and rally provided the setting for the Dr. King iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King, III, Congressman John Lewis, Bernice King, Adreienne King, Washington City Mayor Vincent C. Gray among others start the march at Lincoln Memorial during the rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Fifty years ago on August 28, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The Rev. Al Sharpton, left, marches with, from second left, Evelyn Lowery, the Rev. Joseph Lowery and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., to a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s " I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 2003, in Atlanta.
Civil rights figures lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the recreation of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Selma, Ala., on March 4, 1990. From left are Hosea Williams of Atlanta, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Evelyn Lowery, SCLC President Joseph Lowery and Coretta Scott King (glasses).
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jason Carter, right, speaks during a campaign stop as, his grandfather, former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn, rear center and left, look on with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, in Columbus, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) speaks while campaigning for Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and State Sen. Jason Carter (L) as his grandparents, former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, look on at Emmanuel Christian Community Church on October 27, 2014 in Columbus, Georgia. Jason Carter is running against the Republican incumbent Georgia Republican Gov. Nathan Deal. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jason Carter, right, talks to his grandfather, former President Jimmy Carter, left, as Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., left, and Jason Carter's wife Kate look on before taking the podium at a campaign stop, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, in Columbus, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
ADDS NAME OF SECOND WOMAN IN WHEELCHAIR - President Barack Obama, fourth from left, walks holding hands with Amelia Boynton, who was beaten during "Bloody Sunday," as they and the first family and others including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga, left of Obama, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala,. for the 50th anniversary of the landmark event of the civil rights movement, Saturday, March 7, 2015. At far left is Sasha Obama and at far right is former first lady Laura Bush. Adelaide Sanford also sits in a wheelchair. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., accompanied by fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus express disappointment in the Supreme Court's decision on Shelby County v. Holder that invalidates Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis, a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's, recalled being attacked and beaten trying to help people in Mississippi to register and vote in the 1960's
April 25, 2015 Atlanta - Congressman John Lewis blows kisses to the crowd as he rides in the parade during the Inman Park Festival in Atlanta on Saturday, April 25, 2015. The two day festival featured artists, musicians, food, a tour of homes, the parade and activities for children. JONATHAN PHILLIPS / SPECIAL
Photo provided by Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., center, and Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., left, participate in protest for a vote on gun control measures. (Rep. John Yarmuth via AP)
Rep. John Lewis holds sit-in
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), left, with author Jack Hamann and U.S. District Court Judge Bob Lasnik at Discovery Park in October 2010. They are at the gravesite of Guglielmo Olivotto, who was killed in August 1944. (Photo by Leslie Hamann.)
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., center, and Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., left, participate in sit-down protest seeking a a vote on gun control measures. (Rep. John Yarmuth via AP)
U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) shakes hands with a member of the public after a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol July 30, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
John Lewis, Nancy Pelosi and Charles Rangel, speak with supporters outside the U.S. Capitol building June 23, 2016 in Washington, DC. Democratic House members ended their overnight House floor sit-in trying to force a vote on gun control legislation.
John Lewis, who now represents Georgia in the U.S. House, speaks at the March on Washington. (Photo courtesy of Rep. John Lewis)
Mayor Kasim Reed, foreground, defended U.S. Rep. John Lewis on Saturday after President-elect Donald Trump said Lewis’s district is crime-ridden and falling apart.
Rep. John Lewis testifies against President-elect Trump's nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on January 11, 2017.
Rep. John Lewis marching with Martin Luther King Jr.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis reaches out to shake the hands of well-wishers as he arrives at the Women's March on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Atlanta.
President Barack Obama hugs civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who spoke at the original March on Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, during a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, at the Lincoln Memorial.
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. speaks at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Aug. 28, 2013.
U.S. Rep John Lewis (D-Georgia) is speaking at Mass College Liberal Arts on May 13
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Ralph David Abernathy, John Lewis and others march from Atlanta University to the Georgia State Capitol in 1966. (Photo: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution file photo)
Mathew Ahmann (1931-2001), shown in this photo just to the left of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and with John Lewis at the far left, spoke at the iconic March on Washington in 1963.
Coretta often accompanied her husband in civil rights marches. In this 1966 march, John Lewis (far right), Dr. King, Coretta, Ralph David Abernathy (second left), lead protestors from Atlanta University to the Georgia state Capitol (AJC)
John Lewis (1940-) was national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee when he spoke at the March on Washington. He was one of the primary leaders of the civil rights movement. On March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday, he was
Charles Moore (American, 1931–2010), Freedom Singing, Selma, Alabama, 1965, gelatin silver print, 7 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from Sherri and Jess Crawford in honor of John Lewis, 2007.252.
Rep. John Lewis. (Photo by Riccardo S. Savi/Getty Images for U.S. Postal Service)
FILE - In this May 24, 2018 file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis walks in a procession during Harvard University commencement exercises in Cambridge, Mass. The Civil rights icon has been hospitalized for undisclosed reasons. Citing a statement from Lewis' office, WSB-TV reports that the 78-year-old Georgia congressman was "resting comfortably" in a hospital Saturday night, July 28 for "routine observation." The statement says Lewis expects to be released Sunday. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
What was once Freedom Parkway, is now the John Lewis Freedom Parkway.
U. S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D), left, and John Lewis talk with the media after a meeting inside the Customs and Border Protection office at Hartsfield Jackson International airport on Jan. 25, 2017. Photo: Kent D. Johnson/Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nancy Pelosi speaks to members of the media as (L-R) Rep. John Lewis, Rep.-elect Veronica Escobar, Rep. Joyce Beatty and Rep. Kathy Castor listen November 28, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Amandla Stenberg, left, and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga, introduce "Green Book" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Congressman John Lewis appears on Academy Awards show
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., attends a ceremony to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first recorded arrival of enslaved African people in America, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Congressman John Lewis waves to the crowd as he makes his way down Peachtree Street during the 49th annual Pride Festival and Parade in Atlanta Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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