Rep. Joshua Alexander

Former Representative for Missouri’s 3^rd District

Alexander was the representative for Missouri’s 3^rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1915 to 1921.

He was previously the representative for Missouri’s 3^rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1907 to 1915.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1907 to Dec 1919, Alexander missed 151 of 1,615 roll call votes, which is 9.3%. This is better than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1919. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1907-May 1908	270	20	7.4%	10^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	1	2.4%	2^nd
1909 Mar-Aug	36	2	5.6%	16^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1910 Mar-May	60	9	15.0%	35^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	68	6	8.8%	17^th
1911 Apr-Aug	49	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	5	8.6%	16^th
1912 Apr-Jul	57	3	5.3%	5^th
1912 Aug-Aug	30	1	3.3%	12^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	67	5	7.5%	12^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	3	13.6%	17^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	25	58.1%	47^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	14	58.3%	91^st
1914 Mar-May	34	1	2.9%	5^th
1914 Jun-Aug	62	6	9.7%	9^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	3	10.3%	26^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	4	6.0%	11^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	16	1	6.2%	17^th
1916 Mar-May	53	2	3.8%	15^th
1916 Jun-Aug	23	1	4.3%	9^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	5	8.1%	26^th
1917 Apr-Jun	43	1	2.3%	8^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	1	10.0%	18^th
1917 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	2	5.9%	19^th
1918 Mar-May	65	8	12.3%	28^th
1918 Jun-Aug	33	0	0.0%	0^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	4	6.3%	13^th
1919 May-Jul	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 Aug-Oct	52	12	23.1%	32^nd
1919 Nov-Nov	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	8	6	75.0%	95^th

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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