Smith was the representative for Michigan’s 3rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1923 to 1925.
He was previously the representative for Michigan’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from 1915 to 1923; and the representative for Michigan’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from 1911 to 1915.
![Photo of Rep. John M. C. Smith [R-MI3, 1923-1925]](/static/legislator-photos/410055-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1911 to Mar 1923, Smith missed 396 of 1,603 roll call votes, which is 24.7%. This is on par with the median of 27.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1923. 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
