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Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. (born February 4 1947) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 2nd District of Georgia (map

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   Bishop was born in Mobile, Alabama to Minnie B. Slade and Sanford Dixon Bishop, who was the first president of Bishop State Community College. He was educated at Morehouse College and Emory University Law School, and served in the United States Army, entering the Reserve Officer Training Corps. While at Morehouse, he was a classmate of Herman Cain. After receiving his honorable discharge, Bishop operated a law firm in Columbus, Georgia, and was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1977, where he remained until being elected to the Georgia Senate in 1990. After serving a two-year term, he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992.
   Bishop's district was one of two new majority African-American congressional districts that had been created after congressional apportionment following the 1990 Census. In 1995, a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court ruled that this redistricting violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. However, in 1998, Bishop was able to win reelection in the newly redrawn district, which was now 60 percent white. In 2000, he was reelected to a fifth term, narrowly defeating a high-profile challenge from young African-American Republican Dylan Glenn, who received strong backing from many national Republican leaders.
   He is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Arguably the most conservative African-American Democrat in Congress, Bishop is a member of the Blue Dog Democrats, a group of moderate to conservative Democrats in Congress. Serving a primarily agricultural district, Bishop has fought to preserve the federal price supports for peanuts, southwest Georgia's most important crop. In 2005, he caused considerable controversy within his own party by cosponsoring a bill by U.S. Representative Ernest Istook (R-Oklahoma) to introduce a constitutional amendment to protect religious expression on public property.
   He has received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), given to Eagle Scouts for distinguished career achievement. He is a member of BSA's Order of the Arrow (OA) and as a youth was on the OA ceremonies team.
   On October 10, 2002, Sanford Bishop was one of only four of 36 Congressional Black Caucus members who voted for the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War. The other three Congressional Black Caucus members who voted for the resolution authorizing the Iraq War were: indicted Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA), Rep. Albert Wynn (D-MD), and former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN), now chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council.
   On September 10, 2007, Sanford Bishop endorsed Barack Obama for President and is co-chair of Georgia for Obama campaign; Bishop's wife, Vivian Creighton Bishop, a municipal court clerk in Columbus, is co-chair of the Georgia Women for Hillary committee.

Committee Assignments

Committee on Appropriations
- Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Defense
- Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies

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