Chalmers was the representative for Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district and was an Independent. He served from 1883 to 1885.
He was previously the representative for Mississippi’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1881 to 1883; and the representative for Mississippi’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1877 to 1881.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Oct 1877 to Mar 1885, Chalmers missed 397 of 1,101 roll call votes, which is 36.1%. This is worse than the median of 29.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1885. 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
