Atkins was the representative for Tennessee’s 8th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1881 to 1883.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 8th congressional district as a Democrat from 1877 to 1881; the representative for Tennessee’s 8th congressional district as a Democrat from 1875 to 1877; the representative for Tennessee’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1873 to 1875; and the representative for Tennessee’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1857 to 1859.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1857 to Mar 1883, Atkins missed 484 of 2,515 roll call votes, which is 19.2%. This is better than the median of 28.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1883. 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
