Robert Davey, former Representative from Louisiana's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1909	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District
1905-1907	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District
1903-1905	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District
1901-1903	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District
1899-1901	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District
1897-1899	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District
1893-1895	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Aug 1893 to Dec 1908, Davey missed 775 of 1,376 roll call votes, which is 56.3%. This is worse than the median of 29.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1908. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1893 Aug-Nov	67	19	28.4%	31^st
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	83	62.4%	38^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	50	49.5%	44^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	5	25.0%	10^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	6	12.5%	13^th
1897 Mar-Jul	38	14	36.8%	66^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	15	51.7%	84^th
1898 Mar-May	52	19	36.5%	74^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	14	53.8%	81^st
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	21	56.8%	89^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	10	50.0%	93^rd
1900 Mar-May	49	27	55.1%	92^nd
1900 Jun-Jun	16	9	56.3%	90^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	44	71.0%	98^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	2	11.1%	30^th
1902 Mar-May	21	12	57.1%	87^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	18	64.3%	87^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	55	48.7%	87^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	32	65.3%	93^rd
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	8	25.0%	54^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	24	6	25.0%	53^rd
1906 Mar-May	56	25	44.6%	69^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	6	30.0%	52^nd
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	12	35.3%	77^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	268	254	94.8%	98^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	9	9	100.0%	98^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