Rep. Patrick Caffery
Former Representative for Louisiana’s 3rd District
Caffery was the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1969 to 1972.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1969 to Oct 1972, Caffery missed 268 of 1,092 roll call votes, which is 24.5%. This is much worse than the median of 10.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1972. 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
