Fields was the representative for Kentucky’s 9th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1923 to 1925.
He was previously the representative for Kentucky’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1915 to 1923; and the representative for Kentucky’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1911 to 1915.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1911 to Dec 1923, Fields missed 767 of 1,676 roll call votes, which is 45.8%. This is much worse than the median of 19.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1923. 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
