Rep. John Wesley Gaines
Former Representative for Tennessee’s 6th District
Gaines was the representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1907 to 1909.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1905 to 1907; the representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1903 to 1905; the representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1901 to 1903; the representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901; and the representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1897 to 1899.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1897 to Mar 1909, Gaines missed 331 of 1,050 roll call votes, which is 31.5%. This is on par with the median of 30.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1909. 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
