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Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)

House · Democrat (most recent term) · GA-5 · in Congress 1987–2020 · Bioguide ID L000287

Party history: D 1987–2020. Source: term data in unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0); party shown is as recorded per term there.

Estimated net worth (from public disclosures)

Estimate	Report year	Low	Mid	High
(a) Estimated net worth at the earliest available report (2013); the member entered office earlier, in 1987	2013	$5,005	$40,002	$75,000
(b) Latest net worth estimate	2018	$1,005	$10,002	$19,000
(c) Estimated gain / loss, nominal dollars, 2013 → 2018 (5 years spanned)	2013–2018	−$73,995	−$30,000	+$13,995

Gain Low = latest Low − earliest High; Gain High = latest High − earliest Low (widest possible spread); Mid = latest Mid − earliest Mid.

Reliability flags (net worth): none for these two endpoints. Included in the recommended dollar-gain ranking.

Net worth by report year (mid; Low–High)

Report year	Assets (mid)	Liabilities (mid)	Net worth mid	Low … High	Status / flags
2013	$40,002	$0	$40,002	$5,005 … $75,000	computed
2014	$10,002	$0	$10,002	$1,005 … $19,000	computed
2015	$10,002	$0	$10,002	$1,005 … $19,000	computed
2016	$10,002	$0	$10,002	$1,005 … $19,000	computed
2017	$10,002	$0	$10,002	$1,005 … $19,000	computed
2018	$10,002	$0	$10,002	$1,005 … $19,000	computed

What this is: Net worth = Schedule A assets (each value range at its midpoint; low–high range shown) minus Schedule D liabilities (midpoints / ranges). Low = assets at range floors minus liabilities at range ceilings; Mid = midpoints; High = assets at ceilings minus liabilities at floors. Low and High are outer bounds of the reported ranges, not likely outcomes.
What it excludes / understates: exact values (only ranges are reported); a personal residence is not reported as an asset (although a mortgage on it may be listed as a liability, which then lowers the estimate); retirement and federal accounts (e.g. Thrift Savings Plan, defined-benefit pensions) are only partly or not reported; assets of excepted/blind trusts, cash held below reporting thresholds, vehicles, household goods and most spouse/dependent items exempt from reporting are not included; liabilities on a personal residence, revolving credit under thresholds and loans to family may be omitted by filers.
Open-ended top ranges (e.g. “Over $50,000,000”) are counted at their lower bound and flagged, so such values are understated.
The change is a change in estimated net worth in nominal dollars (no inflation adjustment). It includes salary, gifts, inheritances, business income and re-valuation as well as investment results, and it is subject to range-bracket noise; it is not an investment return and implies nothing about conduct.

Read this first. Members report asset values only as ranges (e.g. “$15,001 – $50,000”), never exact dollars. Every figure below is an estimate computed from range midpoints, not a measured return. Figures cannot be interpreted as investment performance, and they do not show wrongdoing or skill. Methodology and limitations are at the end and in the project README. Sources: public financial disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and/or the Secretary of the Senate (Senate eFD), linked below.

Insufficient data to rank. Only 0 comparable year-pair(s) could be computed (minimum 3 to rank). 6 annual filing(s) were usable (text-readable, validated OCR, or validated X-mark decoding) and 0 scanned/image-only filing(s) could not be used (older layouts failing validation, small amendments not integrated). See the method-per-year section below.

Estimated year-over-year change

Bars: midpoint estimate; whisker: same-position floor/ceiling band. Axis clipped to −100%…+150%. Years with insufficient traceable holdings are omitted.

Year (t−1 → t)	Opening value (mid)	Closing value (mid)	Income (mid)	Buys (mid)	Sales (mid)	Est. gain	Same-position band	Strict envelope	Traced coverage	Status / flags
2013→2014	$32,002	$2,002	$2,052	$0	$0	-87.3%	-88.2% … -74.8%	-184% … +10%	80%	excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000
2014→2015	$10,002	$10,002	$2,152	$0	$0	+21.5%	+17.4% … +100.0%	-170% … +213%	100%	excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000
2015→2016	$2,002	$2,002	$2,052	$0	$0	+102.5%	+77.5% … +25100.0%	-149% … +354%	20%	excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000
2016→2017	$2,002	$2,002	$2,052	$0	$0	+102.5%	+77.5% … +25100.0%	-149% … +354%	20%	excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000
2017→2018	$2,002	$2,002	$2,052	$0	$0	+102.5%	+77.5% … +25100.0%	-149% … +354%	20%	excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000

Filings used

Each annual-report year uses one filing (most recently filed version among originals/amendments whose Schedule A row count is ≥ 40% of the largest). Electronic (text) PDFs are parsed. Scanned/image-only filings are OCR-read and used only if they pass the explicit validation gates described in the project README (value/income coverage, two-engine agreement, exact bracket snapping, page completeness, year-to-year position continuity); such years are labelled OCR-derived below. Scanned filings that fail validation are listed as “insufficient data – scanned”.

Report year	Doc ID	Type	Filed	Schedule A rows	Source (official filing) / SHA-256
2013	10006960	House amendment	5/13/2015	5	10006960.pdf `606e2994d589aef7a9c7ea307d913c89d8212e67b7def00176e036a48f460680`
2014	10006336	House annual	8/13/2015	5	10006336.pdf `4512397eb3d21a351d35026d55927cc12a0cd0ae3e3217cc1bbab675a72d6b10`
2015	10014168	House amendment	10/21/2016	5	10014168.pdf `2c524f206802fcdfe0ebf200f4b8f90ae455c60098f45ae574d50e581f298e7f`
2016	10019395	House amendment	11/27/2017	5	10019395.pdf `d105dd0f8897d18e17094b00ccbc9e021be82a8ba8cc570fa3d7bc775693effe`
2017	10023343	House annual	8/13/2018	5	10023343.pdf `2197cf35926285a094132ec576afd31fd371f6d08c3b3f3a3c3aee5016044b37`
2018	10027999	House annual	8/13/2019	5	10027999.pdf `42fc294d15600ecbe4d00ab82b8be84d80eea05d8268ead9a8b2387a85218287`

Method (summary)

Schedule A asset rows are read from each annual report; the dollar range for each row is converted to its midpoint. Open-ended top ranges (“Over $50,000,000”) are excluded from the traced set and counted as a coverage loss.
Positions are matched year to year by owner code (self/SP/DC/JT) + normalised asset name. A position that appears only in year t is included only if Schedule B shows a purchase of it in year t (opening value 0); a position that disappears is included only if Schedule B shows a sale (closing value 0). Otherwise it is excluded as unexplained.
Estimated gain = (closing − opening + reported income − purchases + sale proceeds) ÷ opening, all at midpoints, for the traced positions. “Capital gains” income is not added again (it is already in value change and sale proceeds).
A year counts only if traced opening value ≥ $50,000 and traced coverage ≥ 60% of the opening midpoint. A member is ranked only with ≥ 3 such years (exactly 2 = “limited data”, shown but unranked). Average = geometric mean of (1+yearly estimate).

Limitations

Ranges are wide (up to a factor of 5 or more, and up to $50M+ open-ended); a holding can move between ranges without any real change in value, and stay in a range while moving materially. Yearly estimates are therefore noisy; the “strict envelope” shows the mathematical worst/best case and is typically wider than ±100%.
Purchases and sales are only disclosed as ranges and only for transactions over $1,000; partial sales, dividend reinvestment, spousal/dependent accounts and retirement-plan funds are reported inconsistently. Excepted/blind trusts, personal residences and certain pensions are not reported at all.
Filers sometimes change how they list assets (e.g. listing a brokerage account vs. its individual holdings), which can make positions untraceable across years; these are excluded rather than guessed.
Asset values in an annual report are as of Dec 31 of the reporting year; the report year t−1→t covers that calendar year. Late or amended filings are used when filed; extensions can delay them.
The text of these reports is machine-parsed from PDFs; parse errors are possible. Every number links back to the cited filing. This is not investment advice.
Use of these filings is restricted by 5 U.S.C. § 105(c) (no unlawful, commercial or credit-rating purpose, and none for solicitation of money).

Generated 2026-10-01 by an automated pipeline. Data: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (disclosures-clerk.house.gov); member roster: unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0).