Rep. Thomas Flournoy
Former Representative for Virginia’s 3rd District
Flournoy was the representative for Virginia’s 3rd congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1847 to 1849.
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1847 to Mar 1849, Flournoy missed 94 of 478 roll call votes, which is 19.7%. This is on par with the median of 24.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1849. 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
