Rep. David Meekison

Former Representative for Ohio’s 5^th District

Meekison was the representative for Ohio’s 5^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1899 to 1901.

He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 5^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1897 to 1899.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1897 to Mar 1901, Meekison missed 78 of 332 roll call votes, which is 23.5%. This is better than the median of 31.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1901. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	38	8	21.1%	22^nd
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	4	13.8%	20^th
1898 Mar-May	53	9	17.0%	29^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	3	11.5%	15^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	11	29.7%	50^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	21	2	9.5%	6^th
1900 Mar-May	49	8	16.3%	22^nd
1900 Jun-Jun	17	5	29.4%	62^nd
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	28	45.2%	72^nd

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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