Overman was a senator from North Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1927 to 1930.
He was previously a senator from North Carolina as a Democrat from 1915 to 1927; and a senator from North Carolina as a Democrat from 1903 to 1915.
![Photo of Sen. Lee Overman [D-NC, 1927-1930]](/static/legislator-photos/408391-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1903 to Feb 1931, Overman missed 1,037 of 4,523 roll call votes, which is 22.9%. This is on par with the median of 22.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1931. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
