Thomas Spight, former Representative from Mississippi's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1911	Representative	Mississippi's 2^nd District
1905-1907	Representative	Mississippi's 2^nd District
1903-1905	Representative	Mississippi's 2^nd District
1901-1903	Representative	Mississippi's 2^nd District
1899-1901	Representative	Mississippi's 2^nd District
1897-1899	Representative	Mississippi's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1898 to Mar 1911, Spight missed 354 of 1,091 roll call votes, which is 32.4%. This is worse than the median of 26.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	9	24.3%	38^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	11	57.9%	95^th
1900 Mar-May	47	19	40.4%	80^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	15	93.8%	96^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	27	43.5%	74^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	17	5	29.4%	73^rd
1902 Mar-May	22	6	27.3%	40^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	3	10.7%	11^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	75	66.4%	94^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	20	40.8%	79^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	5	15.6%	31^st
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	24	6	25.0%	53^rd
1906 Mar-May	57	7	12.3%	15^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	1	5.0%	11^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	16	47.1%	84^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	270	54	20.0%	30^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	15	35.7%	70^th
1909 Mar-Aug	36	4	11.1%	37^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	6	33.3%	65^th
1910 Mar-May	60	8	13.3%	21^st
1910 Jun-Jun	17	2	11.8%	46^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	65	40	61.5%	86^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