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Rep. Thomas King

Former Representative from Georgia’s 1^st District, Whig

Bioguide

King, a Whig, was the representative for Georgia's 1^st congressional district from 1849 to 1851.

He was previously the representative for Georgia's 1^st congressional district (1847-1849); the representative for Georgia's 1^st congressional district (1845-1847); and the representative for Georgia (1839-1843).

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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	170	92	54.1%	85^th
1840 Mar-May	250	147	58.8%	80^th
1840 Jun-Jul	208	118	56.7%	74^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	68	55.3%	71^st
1841 May-Sep	264	60	22.7%	43^rd
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	183	89.7%	95^th
1842 Apr-Jul	218	114	52.3%	82^nd
1842 Aug-Aug	116	33	28.4%	52^nd
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	72	41.9%	70^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	44	29.5%	54^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	102	38.8%	72^nd
1846 Aug-Aug	51	40	78.4%	92^nd
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	179	81	45.3%	80^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	101	33	32.7%	68^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	51	33.8%	65^th
1848 Aug-Aug	71	12	16.9%	39^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	54	34.8%	84^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	54	54	100.0%	99^th
1850 Mar-May	1	1	100.0%	98^th
1850 Jun-Aug	2	2	100.0%	98^th
1850 Sep-Sep	2	2	100.0%	97^th

Primary Sources

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

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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