Adamson was the representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1915 to 1919.
He was previously the representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1907 to 1915; the representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1905 to 1907; the representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1903 to 1905; the representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1901 to 1903; the representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901; and the representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1897 to 1899.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1897 to Dec 1917, Adamson missed 285 of 2,012 roll call votes, which is 14.2%. This is better than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1917. 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
