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Rep. Thomas Alford

Former Representative from Arkansas’s 5^th District, Democrat

Alford, a Democrat, was the representative for Arkansas's 5^th congressional district from 1959 to 1962.

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	54	2	3.7%	60^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	2	8.7%	84^th
1960 May-Aug	70	7	10.0%	91^st
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	6	9.2%	87^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	3	10.3%	82^nd
1962 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	63^rd
1962 Apr-Jun	32	6	18.8%	100^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	6	12.2%	92^nd
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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