Rep. Joseph Byrns Jr.
Former Representative from Tennessee's 5th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Tennessee's 5th District |
See Also: Congress.gov
Voting Record
From Jan 1939 to Nov 1940, Byrns missed 1 of 224 roll call votes, which is 0.4%. This is better than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1940. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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