Catchings was the representative for Mississippi’s 3rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1899 to 1901.
He was previously the representative for Mississippi’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1895 to 1899; the representative for Mississippi’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1893 to 1895; the representative for Mississippi’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1891 to 1893; the representative for Mississippi’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1889 to 1891; the representative for Mississippi’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889; and the representative for Mississippi’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1885 to 1887.
![Photo of Rep. Thomas Catchings [D-MS3, 1899-1901]](/static/legislator-photos/402391-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1885 to Mar 1901, Catchings missed 986 of 2,384 roll call votes, which is 41.4%. This is worse than the median of 31.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1901. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
