David Smith, former Representative from Kentucky's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1905-1907	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District
1897-1899	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1897 to Mar 1907, Smith missed 221 of 729 roll call votes, which is 30.3%. This is worse than the median of 29.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1907. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	38	15	39.5%	68^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	28	3	10.7%	21^st
1898 Mar-May	53	12	22.6%	43^rd
1898 Jun-Jul	25	18	72.0%	91^st
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	6	16.2%	21^st
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	9	47.4%	91^st
1900 Mar-May	48	26	54.2%	91^st
1900 Jun-Jun	16	1	6.3%	19^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	14	22.6%	34^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	3	16.7%	38^th
1902 Mar-May	22	1	4.5%	2^nd
1902 Jun-Jul	28	12	42.9%	66^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	23	20.4%	42^nd
1903 Nov-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	11	22.4%	34^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	7	21.9%	42^nd
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	24	2	8.3%	15^th
1906 Mar-May	57	41	71.9%	86^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	11	55.0%	74^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	6	17.6%	40^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