Biography:

Sanford Bishop was born in Mobile, Ala., and attended public schools there. He resides in Columbus, Ga. In high school, Bishop was president of his local, district and state association of student councils.

He attended Morehouse College, earning a bachelor's degree in political science in 1968. He was student body president and was a member of the school's noted glee club. Bishop then earned a law degree from Emory University and, in 1971, was awarded an internship with the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund in New York to study civil rights litigation. He returned to Georgia in 1972 to practice law in Columbus, and was a partner in the firm of Bishop and Buckner.

He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1977 to 1990, when he was elected to the state Senate. He is a past chairman of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1980, 1984 and 1988.

He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1992.

Bishop is divorced.

Past Campaigns:

Sanford Bishop was elected to the Georgia House in 1977. He served there until 1990, when he was elected to the state Senate. He was elected to the U.S. House in 1992 with 64 percent of the vote, defeating Republican Jim Dudley. He was re-elected in 1994, defeating Republican John Clayton with 66 percent of the vote.

In 1996, he was re-elected with 54 percent of the vote against Republican Darrel Ealum. He won re-election in 1998, defeating Republican Joseph McCormick with 57 percent of the vote. In 2000, he defeated with 53 percent of the vote Dylan Glenn, a black Republican who lost in the primary two years earlier.

He faced no opposition in 2002.

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