LB
Latimer Whipple Ballou
Representative from Rhode IslandHOUSEREPUBLICAN1875–1881ID B000106
LegislationHEADLINE
5%with Dems
of 555 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
5%with Dems
of 555 · both combined
Steepest move
+6 pts
1877 → 1879
still a Republican
Career arc
Legislation leads. Each point is one Congress: how often they sided with the Democratic majority on contested bills, resolutions and amendments.
100%75%50%25%0%sides with Democrats ↑sides with Republicans ↓1875
1879–8046th Congress
Sat as a Republican
7.8%with Democrats
of 192 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1877 → 1879, +6 pts — within one party label.
Sat as a DemocratSat as a RepublicanVotes available below
Votes
Every roll call before 1973 has no description. These rows carry a date, usually a bill number, how they voted and which side that matched — nothing is filled in by hand.
DateBillVoteTypeCastSided with
Mar 3, 1881noneLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1881noneLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1881S. 182LEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (S. 182), how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Yea · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreNo — both party majorities voted Yea.
Where this lands
YEAVoted with both majorities — not scored
Mar 3, 1881S. 365LEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 3, 1881noneLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1881H.R. 7255LEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1881noneLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1881noneLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1881noneLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 192 contested votes scored in the 46th CongressAll votes this Congress →
By policy area
career · legislationThe record carries no policy area for any of these roll calls, so there is nothing to break out.
Service record
3 Congresses44th · 187546th · 1879
Republican · House · RI44th–46th
Term datesexact