Rep. William Polk
Former Representative from Tennessee's 6th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Tennessee's 6th District |
See Also: Congress.gov
Voting Record
From Dec 1851 to Mar 1853, Polk missed 177 of 450 roll call votes, which is 39.3%. This is worse than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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