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Rep. Francis Thomas

Former Representative from Maryland’s 4^th District, Republican

Bioguide

Thomas, a Republican, was the representative for Maryland's 4^th congressional district from 1865 to 1869.

He was previously the representative for Maryland's 4^th congressional district (1863-1865; Unconditional Unionist); the representative for Maryland's 5^th congressional district (1861-1863; Unionist); the representative for Maryland's 6^th congressional district (1839-1841; Democrat); the representative for Maryland's 6^th congressional district (1837-1839; Democrat); the representative for Maryland's 6^th congressional district (1835-1837; Jackson); the representative for Maryland's 7^th congressional district (1833-1835; Jackson); and the representative for Maryland's 4^th congressional district (1831-1833; Jackson).

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1831 to Mar 1869, Thomas missed 1,738 of 5,037 roll call votes, which is 34.5%. This is worse than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1869. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	6	11.3%	0^th
1832 Mar-May	98	30	30.6%	0^th
1832 Jun-Jul	168	28	16.7%	0^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	37	25.9%	0^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	6	17.1%	0^th
1834 Mar-May	92	43	46.7%	0^th
1834 Jun-Jun	95	10	10.5%	0^th
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	23	21.9%	0^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	12	21.1%	0^th
1836 Mar-May	150	30	20.0%	0^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	39	33.6%	0^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	38	27.9%	0^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	7	13.0%	0^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	19	36.5%	0^th
1838 Mar-May	122	21	17.2%	0^th
1838 Jun-Jul	102	14	13.7%	0^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	145	51	35.2%	0^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	170	79	46.5%	50^th
1840 Mar-May	250	164	65.6%	50^th
1840 Jun-Jul	208	125	60.1%	50^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	96	78.0%	50^th
1861 Jul-Aug	54	21	38.9%	92^nd
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	75	20	26.7%	76^th
1862 Mar-May	114	21	18.4%	38^th
1862 Jun-Jul	122	50	41.0%	86^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	273	76	27.8%	82^nd
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	130	26	20.0%	69^th
1864 Mar-May	170	65	38.2%	86^th
1864 Jun-Jul	129	19	14.7%	33^rd
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	76	44.4%	92^nd
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	100	36	36.0%	89^th
1866 Mar-May	142	52	36.6%	80^th
1866 Jun-Jul	142	80	56.3%	86^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	84	37.5%	87^th
1867 Mar-Mar	61	24	39.3%	83^rd
1867 Jul-Jul	35	9	25.7%	58^th
1867 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	53^rd
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	142	38	26.8%	66^th
1868 Mar-May	126	50	39.7%	63^rd
1868 Jun-Jul	150	42	28.0%	43^rd
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	70	35.5%	68^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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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Missed Votes

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