John McSwain, former Representative from South Carolina's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1935-1936	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1931-1934	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1927-1931	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1925-1927	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1923-1925	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1921-1923	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Apr 1921 to Jun 1936, McSwain missed 223 of 1,234 roll call votes, which is 18.1%. This is worse than the median of 10.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1936. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1921 Apr-Jun	56	12	21.4%	62^nd
1921 Jul-Aug	46	12	26.1%	55^th
1921 Oct-Nov	27	7	25.9%	56^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	45	10	22.2%	50^th
1922 Mar-May	47	10	21.3%	45^th
1922 Jun-Aug	51	39	76.5%	86^th
1922 Sep-Sep	12	3	25.0%	56^th
1922 Nov-Nov	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	59	18	30.5%	62^nd
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	83	19	22.9%	82^nd
1924 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	53	2	3.8%	60^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	20	1	5.0%	69^th
1926 Mar-May	36	3	8.3%	68^th
1926 Jun-Jul	22	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	32	1	3.1%	63^rd
Dec 1927-May 1928	52	9	17.3%	65^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	17	5	29.4%	77^th
1929 Apr-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	2	25.0%	55^th
1930 Mar-May	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	2	6.1%	29^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Mar-May	35	4	11.4%	65^th
1932 Jun-Jul	28	3	10.7%	43^rd
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	36	4	11.1%	54^th
1933 Mar-Jun	57	4	7.0%	88^th
1934 Jan-Jun	74	18	24.3%	83^rd
1935 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	72^nd
1935 Apr-Jun	35	1	2.9%	59^th
1935 Jul-Aug	56	3	5.4%	56^th
1936 Jan-Jun	75	30	40.0%	83^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