Rep. De Giddings

Former Representative from Texas’s 5^th District, Democrat

Giddings, a Democrat, was the representative for Texas's 5^th congressional district from 1877 to 1879.

He was previously the representative for Texas's 3^rd congressional district (1873-1875); and the representative for Texas's 3^rd congressional district (1871-1873).

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Voting Record

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From May 1872 to Mar 1879, Giddings missed 113 of 1,085 roll call votes, which is 10.4%. This is better than the median of 22.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1879. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1872 Mar-May	49	5	10.2%	6^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	3	8.6%	18^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	9	6.0%	9^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	7	9.0%	31^st
1874 Mar-May	101	12	11.9%	37^th
1874 Jun-Jun	60	2	3.3%	10^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	235	38	16.2%	36^th
1877 Oct-Dec	37	1	2.7%	7^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	2	3.6%	6^th
1878 Mar-May	103	7	6.8%	11^th
1878 Jun-Jun	65	5	7.7%	18^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	116	22	19.0%	44^th

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

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