Obama, Bush and Clinton speak at funeral for congressman John Lewis

Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton and current House speaker Nancy Pelosi have delivered eulogies for congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis. Hailing him as a founding father for “a fuller, better” America, Obama also praised Lewis’s influence on his own path to the presidency. Democrat colleague Clinton said Lewis believed “none of us will be free until all of us are equal” while Bush said he lived in a better and nobler country because of the congressman’s life work


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Barack Obama is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Obama left office in January 2017 and continues to reside in Washington, D.C.

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