John Stephens, former Representative from Texas's 13th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1917	Representative	Texas's 13^th District
1907-1915	Representative	Texas's 13^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Texas's 13^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Texas's 13^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Texas's 13^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Texas's 13^th District
1897-1899	Representative	Texas's 13^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1897 to Mar 1917, Stephens missed 315 of 1,929 roll call votes, which is 16.3%. This is better than the median of 24.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1917. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	38	1	2.6%	6^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	2	6.9%	3^rd
1898 Mar-May	52	3	5.8%	6^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	2	7.7%	15^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	5	13.5%	15^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1900 Mar-May	49	1	2.0%	2^nd
1900 Jun-Jun	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	61	3	4.9%	6^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1902 Mar-May	22	9	40.9%	68^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	1	3.6%	3^rd
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	35	31.0%	64^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	4	8.2%	11^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	5	15.6%	32^nd
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	24	1	4.2%	13^th
1906 Mar-May	55	12	21.8%	33^rd
1906 Jun-Jun	20	19	95.0%	97^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	33	5	15.2%	49^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	270	68	25.2%	50^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	9	21.4%	50^th
1909 Mar-Aug	36	1	2.8%	8^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1910 Mar-May	60	2	3.3%	8^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	2	11.1%	46^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	65	9	13.8%	42^nd
1911 Apr-Aug	48	2	4.2%	12^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	56	7	12.5%	32^nd
1912 Apr-Jul	57	6	10.5%	14^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	4	13.8%	29^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	65	8	12.3%	25^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	1	4.5%	4^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	37	86.0%	93^rd
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	4	16.7%	47^th
1914 Mar-May	34	1	2.9%	5^th
1914 Jun-Aug	61	19	31.1%	41^st
1914 Sep-Oct	29	1	3.4%	10^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	8	11.9%	31^st
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	16	2	12.5%	48^th
1916 Mar-May	53	8	15.1%	52^nd
1916 Jun-Aug	23	1	4.3%	9^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	7	11.3%	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