René De Rouen, former Representative from Louisiana's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1941	Representative	Louisiana's 7^th District
1937-1938	Representative	Louisiana's 7^th District
1935-1936	Representative	Louisiana's 7^th District
1931-1934	Representative	Louisiana's 7^th District
1927-1931	Representative	Louisiana's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1927 to Dec 1940, De Rouen missed 159 of 998 roll call votes, which is 15.9%. This is worse than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1940. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1927-May 1928	50	10	20.0%	69^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	5	27.8%	73^rd
1929 Apr-Jun	12	2	16.7%	76^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1930 Mar-May	25	5	20.0%	63^rd
1930 Jun-Jul	20	2	10.0%	45^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	32	7	21.9%	84^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Mar-May	38	3	7.9%	55^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	1	3.3%	16^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	2	5.4%	33^rd
1933 Mar-Jun	60	2	3.3%	73^rd
1934 Jan-Jun	74	16	21.6%	81^st
1935 Jan-Mar	31	3	9.7%	98^th
1935 Apr-Jun	34	3	8.8%	91^st
1935 Jul-Aug	56	10	17.9%	89^th
1936 Jan-Jun	80	44	55.0%	96^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	6	31.6%	91^st
1937 Apr-Jun	41	9	22.0%	72^nd
1937 Jul-Aug	28	10	35.7%	81^st
1937 Dec-Dec	9	1	11.1%	81^st
1938 Jan-Jun	60	2	3.3%	70^th
1939 Jan-Mar	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	1	2.4%	71^st
1939 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	26	3	11.5%	93^rd
1940 Apr-Jun	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	27	10	37.0%	97^th
1940 Oct-Dec	10	2	20.0%	93^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