Finley was the representative for South Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1917 to 1919.
He was previously the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1915 to 1917; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1907 to 1915; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1905 to 1907; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1903 to 1905; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1901 to 1903; and the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1899 to Jan 1917, Finley missed 457 of 1,723 roll call votes, which is 26.5%. This is on par with the median of 24.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1917. 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
