Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell addresses the congregation during the funeral for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Photo: Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
“John had an incorruptible integrity and an ideological purity that was like a halo. Somehow that extended to everybody in his orbit—myself included,” former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell said.
July 30, 2020 at 07:44 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Daily Report Online
Three former American presidents—from both political parties—eulogized U.S. Rep. John Lewis at his four-hour funeral in Atlanta on Thursday. So did the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Another president couldn’t make it—he is 95—but sent a letter that Rev. Raphael Warnock read to the congregation at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
But the speaker who conveyed the congressman’s last request was former Atlanta Mayor William Craig “Bill” Campbell.
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