Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., was released from a hospital in Atlanta Sunday evening, one day after he fell ill on a plane.
“Rep. John Lewis has been released from the hospital this evening,” the congressman’s spokeswoman Brenda Jones said in a statement. “All tests have been completed, and doctors have given him a ‘clean bill of health.'”
Specifics about what ailed Lewis haven’t been disclosed, but Jones said he had been admitted for “routine observation” predicted that he would be released sometime Sunday.
“There is no cause for alarm. He will be fine. He’s resting comfortably and expects to be released tomorrow,” Jones said earlier in the day.
Lewis, 78, was a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s and was a leading figure in the civil rights movement against racial segregation.
He has served as the representative of Georgia’s 5th Congressional District since 1986. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 by then-President Barack Obama and has been a vocal critic of President Trump.
