John Gaines, former Representative from Tennessee's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1909	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1897-1899	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1897 to Mar 1909, Gaines missed 300 of 1,016 roll call votes, which is 29.5%. This is better 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	11	28.9%	58^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	9	31.0%	63^rd
1898 Mar-May	52	17	32.7%	67^th
1898 Jun-Jul	23	5	21.7%	40^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	35	12	34.3%	59^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	2	10.5%	17^th
1900 Mar-May	44	19	43.2%	83^rd
1900 Jun-Jun	15	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	5	8.1%	6^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	6	33.3%	79^th
1902 Mar-May	19	5	26.3%	39^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	15	53.6%	80^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	24	21.2%	47^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	12	24.5%	40^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	17	53.1%	92^nd
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	23	5	21.7%	46^th
1906 Mar-May	55	23	41.8%	66^th
1906 Jun-Jun	15	6	40.0%	67^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	32	13	40.6%	81^st
Dec 1907-May 1908	268	86	32.1%	48^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	41	8	19.5%	36^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