Lanham was the representative for Texas’s 8th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1901 to 1903.
He was previously the representative for Texas’s 8th congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901; the representative for Texas’s 8th congressional district as a Democrat from 1897 to 1899; the representative for Texas’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1891 to 1893; the representative for Texas’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1889 to 1891; the representative for Texas’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889; the representative for Texas’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1885 to 1887; and the representative for Texas’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1883 to 1885.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1883 to Jan 1903, Lanham missed 293 of 2,263 roll call votes, which is 12.9%. This is better than the median of 31.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1903. 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
