Thomas was the representative for Maryland’s 4th congressional district and was most recently a Republican (1867-1869) and previously an Unconditional Unionist (1865-1867). He served from 1865 to 1869.
He was previously the representative for Maryland’s 4th congressional district as an Unconditional Unionist from 1863 to 1865; the representative for Maryland’s 5th congressional district as an Unionist from 1861 to 1863; the representative for Maryland’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1839 to 1841; the representative for Maryland’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1837 to 1839; the representative for Maryland’s 6th congressional district as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837; the representative for Maryland’s 7th congressional district as a Jackson from 1833 to 1835; and the representative for Maryland’s 4th congressional district as a Jackson from 1831 to 1833.
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.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
