Birth place: Troy, Alabama
Birth name: John Robert Lewis
Father: Eddie Lewis, sharecropper
Mother: Willie Mae (Carter) Lewis
Marriage: Lillian Miles Lewis (December 21, 1968-December 31, 2012, her death)
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November 6, 2012 – Wins re-election to Congress for a 14th term.
August 2013 – Top Shelf Productions releases “March: Book One.” The graphic novel is the first of a planned trilogy, written by Lewis and Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell.
November 4, 2014 – Is re-elected to a 15th term.
January 2015 – Top Shelf Productions releases “March: Book Two.”
