Davis was the representative for Tennessee’s 9th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1953 to 1964.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 10th congressional district as a Democrat from 1943 to 1952; and the representative for Tennessee’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1939 to 1942.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Feb 1940 to Oct 1964, Davis missed 140 of 2,416 roll call votes, which is 5.8%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1964. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
