Baker was the representative for Tennessee’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. She served from 1963 to 1964.
![Photo of Rep. Irene Baker [R-TN2, 1963-1964]](/static/legislator-photos/401068-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1964 to Oct 1964, Baker missed 0 of 94 roll call votes, which is 0.0%. This is better than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1964. 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
