Rep. Joseph Elam
Former Representative from Louisiana's 4th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Louisiana's 4th District |
See Also: Congress.gov
Voting Record
From Oct 1877 to Mar 1881, Elam missed 152 of 810 roll call votes, which is 18.8%. This is better than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1881. 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