King was the representative for Georgia’s 1st congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1849 to 1851.
He was previously the representative for Georgia’s 1st congressional district as a Whig from 1847 to 1849; the representative for Georgia’s 1st congressional district as a Whig from 1845 to 1847; and the representative for Georgia as a Whig from 1839 to 1843.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1839 to Sep 1850, King missed 1,363 of 2,904 roll call votes, which is 46.9%. This is much worse than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1850. 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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