Alford was the representative for Arkansas’s 5th congressional district and was most recently a Democrat (1961-1962) and previously an Ind. Democrat (1959-1960). He served from 1959 to 1962.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1959 to Oct 1962, Alford missed 33 of 420 roll call votes, which is 7.9%. This is much worse than the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1962. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
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