Adam Byrd, former Representative from Mississippi's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1911	Representative	Mississippi's 5^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Mississippi's 5^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Mississippi's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Nov 1903 to Mar 1911, Byrd missed 346 of 727 roll call votes, which is 47.6%. This is worse than the median of 26.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1903 Nov-Nov	5	3	60.0%	96^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	27	55.1%	88^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	10	31.3%	69^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	12	48.0%	88^th
1906 Mar-May	57	33	57.9%	83^rd
1906 Jun-Jun	20	16	80.0%	92^nd
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	16	47.1%	84^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	144	53.5%	81^st
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	13	31.0%	64^th
1909 Mar-Aug	36	4	11.1%	37^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	18	100.0%	98^th
1910 Mar-May	60	15	25.0%	48^th
1910 Jun-Jun	15	4	26.7%	61^st
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	65	31	47.7%	77^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000