Samuel Cooper, former Representative from Texas's 2nd District

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

Voting Record

From Aug 1893 to Mar 1909, Cooper missed 455 of 1,431 roll call votes, which is 31.8%. This is worse than the median of 29.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1909. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1893 Aug-Nov	67	5	7.5%	10^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	22	16.5%	26^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	13	12.9%	15^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	7	35.0%	28^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	16	33.3%	77^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	17	3	17.6%	56^th
1896 Mar-May	53	17	32.1%	46^th
1896 Jun-Jun	27	10	37.0%	59^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	16	25.8%	18^th
1897 Mar-Jul	37	6	16.2%	24^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	2	6.9%	7^th
1898 Mar-May	53	17	32.1%	62^nd
1898 Jun-Jul	26	26	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	36	5	13.9%	21^st
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	3	15.0%	23^rd
1900 Mar-May	46	39	84.8%	98^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	6	37.5%	79^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	15	24.2%	37^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	5	27.8%	70^th
1902 Mar-May	20	11	55.0%	86^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	15	53.6%	80^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	65	57.5%	93^rd
1903 Nov-Nov	6	1	16.7%	54^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	39	79.6%	97^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	17	53.1%	92^nd
Dec 1907-May 1908	270	62	23.0%	30^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	12	28.6%	52^nd

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo