Thomas Norwood, former Representative from Georgia's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1887-1889	Representative	Georgia's 1^st District
1885-1887	Representative	Georgia's 1^st District
1871-1877	Senator	Georgia

Voting Record

From Dec 1885 to Mar 1889, Norwood missed 315 of 620 roll call votes, which is 50.8%. This is worse than the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1889. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	37	7	18.9%	44^th
1886 Apr-Jul	155	80	51.6%	89^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	1	16.7%	28^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	24	23.3%	53^rd
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	14	35.9%	70^th
1888 Mar-May	104	79	76.0%	94^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	34	72.3%	87^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	14	87.5%	71^st
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	62	54.9%	83^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo