Covington was the representative for Maryland’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1909 to 1915.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1909 to Sep 1914, Covington missed 344 of 655 roll call votes, which is 52.5%. This is much worse than the median of 32.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1914. 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
