Leonidas Dyer, former Representative for Missouri's 12th Congressional District

Dyer was the representative for Missouri’s 12^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1931 to 1933.

He was previously the representative for Missouri’s 12^th congressional district as a Republican from 1927 to 1931; the representative for Missouri’s 12^th congressional district as a Republican from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Missouri’s 12^th congressional district as a Republican from 1923 to 1925; the representative for Missouri’s 12^th congressional district as a Republican from 1915 to 1923; and the representative for Missouri’s 12^th congressional district as a Republican from 1911 to 1915.

Photo of Rep. Leonidas Dyer [R-MO12, 1931-1933]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Apr 1911 to Mar 1933, Dyer missed 542 of 2,108 roll call votes, which is 25.7%. This is worse than the median of 16.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1933. 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
1911 Apr-Aug	49	1	2.0%	7^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	4	6.9%	21^st
1912 Apr-Jul	57	27	47.4%	86^th
1912 Aug-Aug	30	29	96.7%	79^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	67	20	29.9%	48^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	2	9.1%	10^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	19	44.2%	34^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	3	12.5%	43^rd
1914 Mar-May	34	9	26.5%	68^th
1914 Jun-Aug	11	8	72.7%	91^st
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	16	5	31.2%	85^th
1916 Mar-May	53	12	22.6%	78^th
1916 Jun-Aug	23	11	47.8%	87^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	3	100.0%	77^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	16	25.8%	84^th
1917 Apr-Jun	43	19	44.2%	95^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	1	10.0%	27^th
1917 Oct-Oct	4	4	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	8	24.2%	81^st
1918 Mar-May	65	8	12.3%	35^th
1918 Jun-Aug	33	8	24.2%	45^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	2	14.3%	28^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	4	6.3%	17^th
1919 May-Jul	62	22	35.5%	76^th
1919 Aug-Oct	52	27	51.9%	79^th
1919 Nov-Nov	16	7	43.8%	71^st
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	18	46.2%	87^th
1920 Mar-May	70	21	30.0%	74^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	3	37.5%	71^st
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	92	22	23.9%	73^rd
1921 Apr-Jun	58	16	27.6%	73^rd
1921 Jul-Aug	48	18	37.5%	66^th
1921 Oct-Nov	29	12	41.4%	72^nd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	48	8	16.7%	32^nd
1922 Mar-May	47	17	36.2%	69^th
1922 Jun-Aug	54	12	22.2%	36^th
1922 Sep-Sep	13	1	7.7%	16^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	3	60.0%	93^rd
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	60	53	88.3%	98^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	85	16	18.8%	68^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	2	3.7%	40^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	22	1	4.5%	24^th
1926 Mar-May	37	1	2.7%	25^th
1926 Jun-Jul	22	4	18.2%	73^rd
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	1	3.0%	39^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	54	6	11.1%	38^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	2	11.1%	27^th
1929 Apr-Jun	14	2	14.3%	45^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	9	1	11.1%	25^th
1930 Mar-May	26	7	26.9%	61^st
1930 Jun-Jul	21	2	9.5%	28^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	2	6.1%	23^rd
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	3	17.6%	56^th
1932 Mar-May	39	5	12.8%	52^nd
1932 Jun-Jul	30	2	6.7%	20^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	2	5.4%	19^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

Rep. Leonidas Dyer

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