De Vries was the representative for California’s 2nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1899 to 1901.
He was previously the representative for California’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1897 to 1899.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1897 to Jun 1900, De Vries missed 33 of 270 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. This is better than the median of 31.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1900. 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
