Davis was the representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1845 to 1847.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845; the representative for Indiana’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1839 to 1841; and the representative for Indiana’s 2nd congressional district as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837.
![Photo of Rep. John Wesley Davis [D-IN6, 1845-1847]](/static/legislator-photos/403255-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1835 to Mar 1847, Davis missed 1,269 of 2,449 roll call votes, which is 51.8%. This is much worse than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. 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
