John Conyers Jr. (Michigan U.S. House representative)

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This page is about John Conyers Jr., a member of the U.S. House, representing Michigan's 13th Congressional District from 1964-2017. For his son, John Conyers III, a candidate for Michigan's 13th Congressional District, see John Conyers III (Michigan U.S. House candidate).
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Democratic Party

Prior offices
U.S. House Michigan District 13
Successor: Brenda Jones
Predecessor: Hansen Clarke

Compensation

Net worth

(2012) $-12,500

Education

Bachelor's

Wayne State University

Other

Wayne State Law School

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Army

Years of service

1950 - 1954

Service / branch

U.S. Army Reserve

Years of service

1954 - 1957

Personal
Religion
Christian: Baptist
Profession
Attorney

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John Conyers, Jr. (b. May 16, 1929, in Detroit, MI) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Michigan's 13th Congressional District. Conyers was first elected to the House in 1964 and resigned on December 5, 2017, amid sexual harassment allegations.[1] Conyers died on October 27, 2019.[2]

Biography

Conyers was born in 1929 in Detroit, MI. He earned his B.A. and L.L.B. from Wayne State University in 1957 and 1958, respectively.[3] He died on October 27, 2019.[2]

Career

Below is an abbreviated outline of Conyers' academic, professional, and political career:[4]

Committee assignments

U.S. House

2017-2018

At the beginning of the 115th Congress, Conyers was assigned to the following committees:[5]

2015-2016

Conyers served on the following committees:[6]

2013-2014

Conyers served on the following committees:[7]

  • Judiciary Committee Ranking Member
    • Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice
    • Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

2011-2012

Conyers served on the following House committees:[8]

  • Judiciary Committee Ranking Member
    • Subcommittee on the Constitution
    • Subcommitte on Intellectual Property, Competition, and Internet

Key votes

See also: Key votes

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Key votes: 115th Congress, 2017-2018

For detailed information about each vote, click here.

Key votes: Previous sessions of Congress

Issues

Presidential preference

2016 presidential endorsement

✓ Conyers endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic primary in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[114]

See also: Endorsements for Hillary Clinton

House Judiciary Committee

Conyers served on the House Judiciary Committee since shortly after he was sworn into Congress in 1965.[115] The Congressman was the first ever African-American to be appointed to the House Judiciary Committee.[115] Conyers was one of the managers responsible for the impeachment trial of federal judge Alcee Hastings in 1989.[116]

On November 26, 2017, Conyers stepped down from his position as the ranking member of the committee following allegations that he sexually harassed staffers. He denied the allegations in a statement.[117]

Conyers served on the committee in the impeachment proceedings of former Presidents Bill Clinton in 1998 and Richard Nixon in 1974.[118]

Elections

2016

See also: Michigan's 13th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent John Conyers, Jr. (D) defeated Jeff Gorman (R), Tiffany Hayden (L), and Sam Johnson (Working Class) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Conyers defeated Janice Winfrey in the Democratic primary on August 2, 2016.[119][120][121][122]

U.S. House, Michigan District 13 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Conyers, Jr. Incumbent 77.1% 198,771
     Republican Jeff Gorman 15.7% 40,541
     Libertarian Tiffany Hayden 3.7% 9,648
     Working Class Sam Johnson 3.4% 8,835
     N/A Write-in 0% 2
Total Votes 257,797
Source: Michigan Secretary of State


U.S. House, Michigan District 13 Democratic Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Conyers Jr. Incumbent 60.8% 30,971
Janice Winfrey 39.2% 19,965
Total Votes 50,936
Source: Michigan Secretary of State

2014

See also: Michigan's 13th Congressional District elections, 2014

Conyers ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Michigan's 13th District. Conyers won the Democratic nomination in the primary against Horace Sheffield on August 5, 2014. He defeated Jeff Gorman (R), Chris Sharer (Libertarian) and Sam Johnson (I) in the general election on November 4, 2014.

U.S. House, Michigan District 13 General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Conyers, Jr. Incumbent 79.5% 132,710
     Republican Jeff Gorman 16.3% 27,234
     Libertarian Chris Sharer 2.1% 3,537
     Independent Sam Johnson 2.1% 3,466
Total Votes 166,947
Source: Michigan Secretary of State
U.S. House, Michigan District 13 Democratic Primary, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Conyers, Jr. Incumbent 86.3% 42,005
Horace Sheffield 13.7% 6,696
Total Votes 48,701
Source: Michigan Secretary of State

Ballot controversy

On May 13, 2014, the Wayne County Clerk, Cathy Garrett, announced that the signatures coming from two of Conyers' petition circulators were invalid, disqualifying him from the August 5 primary ballot. It was later discovered that one of Conyers' petitioners was a fugitive with a criminal record.[123][124][125][126]

On May 23, 2014, a federal judge overturned the original decision. Because of this, Conyers was reinstated on the ballot.
The judge said in his ruling: "There is evidence that their failure to comply with the Registration Statute was the result of good faith mistakes and that they believed they were in compliance with the statute."[127]

2012

See also: Michigan's 13th Congressional District elections, 2012

Conyers won re-election in the 2012 election for the U.S. House, representing Michigan's 13th District.[128] He defeated Glenn Anderson, Bert Johnson, John Goci and Shanelle Jackson in the August 7 Democratic primary. He then defeated Harry T. Sawicki (R), Chris Sharer (L) and Martin Gray (UST) in the general election on November 6, 2012.[129]

John Conyers, Jr., "This is John Conyers "[130]
U.S. House, Michigan District 13 General Election, 2012
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Conyers, Jr. Incumbent 82.8% 235,336
     Republican Harry T. Sawicki 13.6% 38,769
     Libertarian Chris Sharer 2.1% 6,076
     UST Martin Gray 1.4% 4,089
Total Votes 284,270
Source: Michigan Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election"
U.S. House, Michigan District 13 Democratic Primary, 2012
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngJohn Conyers, Jr. 55.4% 38,371
Glenn Anderson 18.2% 12,586
Shanelle Jackson 12.6% 8,708
Bert Johnson 10% 6,928
John Goci 3.8% 2,664
Total Votes 69,257


Full history


Campaign themes

2012

  • Conyers highlighted the issue of Healthcare on his campaign website:

"It is my belief that the best way to create an efficient, cost effective, and high quality universal health care system in the United States is to pass H.R. 676, and establish a nonprofit universal single payer program that would be similar to an improved 'Medicare for all' program."[156]

2016

The following issues were listed on Conyers' campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“
  • Protecting Social Security and Medicare: During his decades of service in Congress, Representative Conyers has led the fight to protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare from cuts and privatization schemes. He understands these benefits have been earned over a lifetime of hard work and that our country must honor its promises to our seniors. He is a sponsor of H. Con. Res. 72, which states that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security benefit cuts should not be part of any deal in Congress aimed at reducing the deficit.
  • Affordable Health Care For All: Representative Conyers is a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The health care reform bill has improved the lives of seniors, young adults, small businesses, and many others in Southeast Michigan and has taken power away from insurance companies and given it to patients and doctors.
  • Creating Jobs in Southeast Michigan: Representative Conyers is dedicated to putting people back to work in Southeast Michigan. He has repeatedly opposed trade agreements like NAFTA that have killed American jobs and while providing little economic benefit in return.
  • Education and the Arts: Representative Conyers has fought to ensure equal access to quality education for Southeast Michigan’s students. This has included introducing and co-sponsoring bills to save and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of teachers, fighting against cuts to school nutrition programs, and promoting efforts to keep our community safe for our children. Representative Conyers is deeply concerned about inequities in our school system and has pushed to increase funding for school districts with high concentrations of poverty.
  • Peace and Security: As critical as our military strength is to protecting American interests abroad, the use of military force should always be our final option, not our first. We must always have an aggressive, proactive diplomatic presence in areas of potential conflict and seek to use our influence to avert conflict. Putting our men and women in uniform in harm’s way should never be taken lightly or undertaken for the wrong reasons.

[157]

”
—John Conyers' campaign website, http://www.johnconyers.com/issues#.V5iV39BZTt4

Campaign finance summary

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John Conyers, Jr. campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2016U.S. House, Michigan District 13Won $604,078 N/A**
2014U.S. House (Michigan, District 13)Won $778,668 N/A**
2012U.S. House Michigan District 13Won $1,044,468 N/A**
2010U.S. House Michigan District 14Won $1,137,010 N/A**
2008U.S. House Michigan District 14Won $1,096,282 N/A**
2006U.S. House Michigan District 14Won $1,069,653 N/A**
2004U.S. House Michigan District 14Won $560,101 N/A**
2002U.S. House Michigan District 14Won $410,787 N/A**
2000U.S. House Michigan District 14Won $574,559 N/A**
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Personal Gain Index

Congressional Personal Gain Index graphic.png
See also: Personal Gain Index (U.S. Congress)

The Personal Gain Index (U.S. Congress) is a two-part measurement that illustrates the extent to which members of the U.S. Congress have prospered during their tenure as public servants.
It consists of two different metrics:

PGI: Change in net worth

See also: Changes in Net Worth of U.S. Senators and Representatives (Personal Gain Index) and Net worth of United States Senators and Representatives
Net Worth Metric graphic.png

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Conyers' net worth as of 2012 was estimated between $-15,000 and $-10,000. That averages to $-12,500, which is lower than the average net worth of Democratic representatives in 2012 of $5,700,168.36. Conyers ranked as the 108th most wealthy representative in 2012.[158] Between 2004 and 2012, Conyers' calculated net worth[159] decreased by an average of 98 percent per year. Between 2004 and 2012, the average annual percentage increase for a member of Congress was 15.4 percent.[160]

John Conyers, Jr. Yearly Net Worth
YearAverage Net Worth
2004$1,824
2012$−12,500
Growth from 2004 to 2012:−785%
Average annual growth:−98%[161]
Comparatively, the American citizen experienced a median yearly decline in net worth of -0.94%.[162]

The data used to calculate changes in net worth may include changes resulting from assets gained through marriage, inheritance, changes in family estates and/or trusts, changes in family business ownership, and many other variables unrelated to a member's behavior in Congress.

PGI: Donation Concentration Metric

See also: The Donation Concentration Metric (U.S. Congress Personal Gain Index)

Filings required by the Federal Election Commission report on the industries that give to each candidate. Using campaign filings and information calculated by OpenSecrets.org, Ballotpedia calculated the percentage of donations by industry received by each incumbent over the course of his or her career (or 1989 and later, if elected prior to 1988). In the 113th Congress, Conyers is the ranking member of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary. Conyers received the most donations from individuals and PACs employed by the Lawyers/Law Firms industry.

From 1989-2014, 32.96 percent of Conyers' career contributions came from the top five industries as listed below.[163]

Donation Concentration Metric graphic.png
John Conyers Jr. (Michigan U.S. House representative) Campaign Contributions
Total Raised $8,176,962
Total Spent $8,067,049
Ranking member of the House Committee on Judiciary
Top five industries that contributed to campaign committee
Lawyers/Law Firms$936,507
TV/Movies/Music$719,281
Public Sector Unions$391,363
Building Trade Unions$325,350
Industrial Unions$322,250
% total in top industry11.45%
% total in top two industries20.25%
% total in top five industries32.96%

Analysis

Ideology and leadership

See also: GovTrack's Political Spectrum & Legislative Leadership ranking

Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack, Conyers was a far-left Democratic leader as of June 2013.[164] This was the same rating Conyers received in July 2014.

Like-minded colleagues

The website OpenCongress tracks the voting records of each member to determine with whom he or she votes most and least often. The results include a member from each party.[165]

Conyers most often voted with:

Conyers least often voted with:


Lifetime voting record

See also: Lifetime voting records of United States Senators and Representatives

According to the website GovTrack, Conyers missed 4,863 of 27,697 roll call votes from January 1965 to September 2015. This amounted to 17.6 percent, which was higher than the median of 2.2 percent among representatives as of September 2015.[166]

Congressional staff salaries

See also: Staff salaries of United States Senators and Representatives

The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress. Conyers paid his congressional staff a total of $1,172,123 in 2011. He ranked 19th on the list of the highest paid Democratic representative staff salaries and ranked 22nd overall of the highest paid representative staff salaries in 2011. Overall, Michigan ranked 13th in average salary for representative staff. The average U.S. House of Representatives congressional staff was paid $954,912.20 in fiscal year 2011.[167]

National Journal vote ratings

See also: National Journal vote ratings

Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year. Click the link above for the full ratings of all members of Congress.

2013

Conyers ranked 20th in the liberal rankings in 2013.[168]

2012

Conyers was ranked 1st in the liberal rankings in 2012. Thirteen other representatives across the country held this ranking. This is the most liberal ranking held by any of Michigan's representatives.[169]

2011

Conyers ranked 51st in the liberal rankings in 2011.[170]

Voting with party

The website OpenCongress tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus.

2014

Conyers voted with the Democratic Party 91.6 percent of the time, which ranked 137th among the 204 House Democratic members as of July 2014.[171]

2013

Conyers voted with the Democratic Party 93.7 percent of the time, which ranked 146th among the 201 House Democratic members as of June 2013.[172]

2016 Democratic National Convention

Noteworthy events

Resignation following sexual misconduct allegations (2017)

See also: Sexual assault and harassment in American politics (2017-2018)

Conyers resigned from Congress on December 5, 2017, amid allegations he had groped or sexually harassed at least three women. In a speech on the House floor, Conyers said he was resigning "to preserve my legacy and good name."[181]

On November 20, 2017, it was reported that Conyers had made repeated advances toward female staffers. Buzzfeed released an account of a female staffer who settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015. "In her complaint, the former employee said Conyers repeatedly asked her for sexual favors and often asked her to join him in a hotel room. On one occasion, she alleges that Conyers asked her to work out of his room for the evening, but when she arrived the congressman started talking about his sexual desires," Buzzfeed reported.[182]

"One of my duties while working for Rep. Conyers was to keep a list of women that I assumed he was having affairs with and call them at his request and, if necessary, have them flown in using Congressional resources," a second former female staffer stated during her affidavit.[183]

Conyers denied having settled the 2015 complaint and told the Associated Press that he "knows nothing about any claims of inappropriate touching."[184]

On November 26, 2017, Rep. Conyers announced that he was stepping down as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, while the House Ethics Committee investigates the allegations of sexual misconduct against him.[185][186] Also on November 26, 2017, Politico reported that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi supported Conyers' decision to step down as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.[187] In an interview on NBC's Meet The Press, Pelosi said, "We are strengthened by due process. Just because someone is accused -- and was it one accusation? Is it two? I think there has to be -- John Conyers is an icon in our country...But the fact is, as John reviews his case, which he knows, which I don’t, I believe he will do the right thing.[188]

On November 28, 2017, The Detroit News reported that a third woman, Deanna Maher, who worked as one of Conyers' congressional aides from 1997 to 2005, had come forward accusing him of several unwanted sexual advances toward her, including inappropriate touching, in the late 1990s.[189]

On November 30, 2017, several members of the U.S. House called on Conyers to resign: Pelosi, Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), the third-ranking Democrat in the House, and Rep. Joseph Crowley (N.Y.), the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House.[190][191] Conyers' attorney, Arnold Reed, responded to those calls for resignation, saying that Pelosi "sure as hell won't be the one to tell the congressman to leave."[192]

Personal

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Conyers had two sons with his wife, Monica (nee Esters).[193]

Recent news

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See also

External links

 

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Chicago Tribune, "U.S. Rep. John Conyers announces retirement from Congress," December 5, 2017
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fox 2 Detroit, "Former Congressman John Conyers passes away," October 27, 2019
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  4. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "CONYERS, John, Jr., (1929 - )," accessed February 10, 2015
  5. ↑ U.S. House Clerk, "Official Alphabetical List of the House of Representatives of the United States One Hundred Fifteenth Congress," accessed February 2, 2017
  6. ↑ U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, "Committee Information," accessed February 18, 2015
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  157. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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  159. ↑ This figure represents the total percentage growth from either 2004 (if the member entered office in 2004 or earlier) or the member's first year in office (as noted in the chart below).
  160. ↑ This number was found by dividing each member's total net worth growth percentage by the number of years included in the calculation.
  161. ↑ This figure represents the total percentage growth divided by the number of years for which there are net worth figures for each member.
  162. ↑ This figure was calculated using median asset data from the Census Bureau. Please see the Congressional Net Worth data for Ballotpedia spreadsheet for more information on this calculation.
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  175. ↑ To find out which candidate a superdelegate supported, Ballotpedia sought out public statements from the superdelegate in other media outlets and on social media. If we were unable to find a public statement that clearly articulated which candidate the superdelegate supported at the national convention, we listed that superdelegate as "unknown." If you believe we made an error in identifying which candidate a superdelegate supported, please email us at [email protected].
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