John Lewis released

John Lewis released from Georgia hospital

By BRENT D. GRIFFITHS

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was released from a Georgia hospital Sunday evening with doctors giving a "clean bill of health," after being hospitalized for undisclosed reasons.

"All tests have been completed, and doctors have given him a 'clean bill of health,'" Lewis' spokeswoman Brenda Jones said in a statement. "He thanks everyone who shared their thoughts, prayers and concerns during his stay."

Earlier Sunday, Jones had said Lewis was “resting very comfortably.”

WSB-TV, an Atlanta station, reported Saturday that Lewis, 78, was hospitalized after becoming ill on a flight headed to the state's capital. He was expected at an Atlanta event Saturday evening but did not attend.

A civil rights icon, Lewis is the last survivor of the “Big Six” who led the way at the 1963 March on Washington. Lewis played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement as a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the original Freedom Riders in 1961 and one of those beaten on “Bloody Sunday” at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.

He was elected to Congress in 1986.