Joseph Smith, former Representative from West Virginia's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1944	Representative	West Virginia's 6^th District
1937-1938	Representative	West Virginia's 6^th District
1935-1936	Representative	West Virginia's 6^th District
1931-1934	Representative	West Virginia's 6^th District
1929-1931	Representative	West Virginia's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Apr 1929 to Dec 1944, Smith missed 222 of 1,216 roll call votes, which is 18.3%. This is worse than the median of 4.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1944. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1929 Apr-Jun	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	2	25.0%	59^th
1930 Mar-May	25	1	4.0%	23^rd
1930 Jun-Jul	20	2	10.0%	48^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	30	4	13.3%	61^st
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	2	11.8%	55^th
1932 Mar-May	35	8	22.9%	88^th
1932 Jun-Jul	29	15	51.7%	98^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	35	9	25.7%	95^th
1933 Mar-Jun	56	4	7.1%	88^th
1934 Jan-Jun	77	35	45.5%	98^th
1935 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	37	2	5.4%	78^th
1935 Jul-Aug	53	7	13.2%	85^th
1936 Jan-Jun	77	11	14.3%	43^rd
1937 Jan-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Apr-Jun	41	32	78.0%	98^th
1937 Jul-Aug	27	27	100.0%	99^th
1937 Dec-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	60	3	5.0%	80^th
1939 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	85^th
1939 Jul-Aug	16	2	12.5%	97^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	3	4.8%	96^th
1940 Jul-Sep	28	10	35.7%	96^th
1940 Oct-Dec	10	1	10.0%	54^th
1941 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	27	3	11.1%	96^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	2	13.3%	89^th
1942 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	30	6	20.0%	98^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	7	63.6%	98^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	1	20.0%	74^th
1943 Jan-Mar	17	2	11.8%	83^rd
1943 Apr-Jun	44	3	6.8%	75^th
1943 Jul-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	11	4	36.4%	96^th
1944 Jan-Mar	23	3	13.0%	87^th
1944 Apr-Jun	32	8	25.0%	94^th
1944 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	5	2	40.0%	81^st

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