U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the House of Representatives through a moment of silence for civil rights icon and former congressman John Lewis on Monday.

Lewis died on Friday at the age of 80 after being diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. He continued his work in Congress as he received treatment for his illness.

The last surviving speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, Lewis also led the first march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on a day that became known as “Bloody Sunday” after police officers attacked Black demonstrators.

Lewis was elected to represent Georgia’s fifth congressional district in 1986.

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