Loomis was the representative for Ohio’s 17th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1837 to 1839.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Sep 1837 to Jul 1838, Loomis missed 3 of 58 roll call votes, which is 5.2%. This is better than the median of 23.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1838. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
