Mills was a senator from Texas and was a Democrat. He served from 1892 to 1899.
He was previously the representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1891 to 1892; the representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1889 to 1891; the representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889; the representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1885 to 1887; the representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1883 to 1885; the representative for Texas’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1881 to 1883; the representative for Texas’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1877 to 1881; the representative for Texas’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1875 to 1877; and the representative for Texas as a Democrat from 1873 to 1875.
![Photo of Sen. Roger Mills [D-TX, 1892-1899]](/static/legislator-photos/407755-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1892 to Mar 1899, Mills missed 501 of 1,324 roll call votes, which is 37.8%. This is on par with the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1899. 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
