Elijah Lewis, former Representative from Georgia's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1909	Representative	Georgia's 3^rd District
1905-1907	Representative	Georgia's 3^rd District
1903-1905	Representative	Georgia's 3^rd District
1901-1903	Representative	Georgia's 3^rd District
1899-1901	Representative	Georgia's 3^rd District
1897-1899	Representative	Georgia's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1897 to Mar 1909, Lewis missed 456 of 1,045 roll call votes, which is 43.6%. This is worse than the median of 29.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1909. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	38	2	5.3%	7^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	8	27.6%	57^th
1898 Mar-May	53	6	11.3%	18^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	21	80.8%	95^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	3	8.1%	1^st
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	7	35.0%	65^th
1900 Mar-May	49	16	32.7%	66^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	4	25.0%	63^rd
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	16	25.8%	43^rd
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	3	16.7%	39^th
1902 Mar-May	22	7	31.8%	53^rd
1902 Jun-Jul	28	9	32.1%	51^st
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	50	44.2%	83^rd
1903 Nov-Nov	6	1	16.7%	54^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	20	40.8%	76^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	8	25.0%	54^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	24	3	12.5%	27^th
1906 Mar-May	57	29	50.9%	76^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	20	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	5	14.7%	37^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	270	187	69.3%	91^st
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	31	73.8%	93^rd

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