Sanford Bishop
American politician (born 1947)
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain
Races
- 2026 · U.S. House, GA-02 · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2024 · U.S. House, GA-02 · General · Democratic · result not on file · incumbent · source
- 2022 · U.S. House, GA-02 · General · Democratic · won · 132,675 votes (55.0%) · incumbent · source
- 2020 · U.S. House, GA-02 · General · Democratic · won · 161,397 votes (59.1%) · source
- 2018 · U.S. House, GA-02 · General · Democratic · won · 136,699 votes (59.6%) · source
Background
Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district since 1993. He became the dean of Georgia's congressional delegation after the death of John Lewis.
More
A member of the Blue Dog Coalition, he belongs to the moderate faction of the Democratic Party. His district is in southwestern Georgia and includes Albany, Thomasville, and most of Columbus and Macon.
Campaign finance
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-24 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Bishop
- Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983428
- Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2GA02031/
- photo_action — http://bishop.house.gov
- photo_full_body — http://bishop.house.gov
- photo_headshot — https://github.com/unitedstates/images
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