Rep. Langdon Cheves
Former Representative for South Carolina’s 1st District
Cheves was the representative for South Carolina’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1811 to 1815.
He was previously the representative for South Carolina’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1809 to 1811.
![Photo of Rep. Langdon Cheves [R-SC1, 1811-1815]](/static/legislator-photos/402489-200px.jpeg)
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1810 to Mar 1815, Cheves missed 337 of 770 roll call votes, which is 43.8%. This is much worse than the median of 18.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1815. 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
