Lewis was a senator from Alabama and was a Democrat. He served from 1847 to 1848.
He was previously a senator from Alabama as a Democrat from 1844 to 1847; the representative for Alabama’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1844; the representative for Alabama’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1841 to 1843; the representative for Alabama’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1839 to 1841; the representative for Alabama’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1837 to 1839; the representative for Alabama’s 4th congressional district as a Nullifier from 1835 to 1837; the representative for Alabama’s 4th congressional district as a Nullifier from 1833 to 1835; the representative for Alabama’s 3rd congressional district as a Jackson from 1831 to 1833; and the representative for Alabama’s 3rd congressional district as a Jackson from 1829 to 1831.
![Photo of Sen. Dixon Lewis [D-AL, 1847-1848]](/static/legislator-photos/406776-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1844 to Mar 1849, Lewis missed 212 of 882 roll call votes, which is 24.0%. This is worse than the median of 19.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1849. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
