Davidson was the representative for North Carolina’s 11th congressional district and was a Federalist. He served from 1819 to 1821.
He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 11th congressional district as a Federalist from 1817 to 1819.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1818 to Mar 1821, Davidson missed 44 of 188 roll call votes, which is 23.4%. This is worse than the median of 14.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1821. 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
