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Samuel Willard Beakes

Representative from Michigan
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1913–1919ID B000264
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LegislationHEADLINE
75%with Dems
of 312 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
75%with Dems
of 312 · both combined
Steepest move
+10 pts
1915 → 1917
still a Democrat

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 ↓1913
1917–1865th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
78.8%with Democrats
of 85 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1915 → 1917, +10 pts — while still a Democrat.
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, 1919H.R. 606No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1919noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1919noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Yea · Republicans NayCounts toward scoreYes — the parties split.
Where this lands
YEASided with the Democratic majority
Mar 1, 1919noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1919noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1919noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1919noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1919noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Feb 28, 1919S. 1419No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
9 most recent roll calls shown · 85 contested votes scored in the 65th CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation
The record carries no policy area for any of these roll calls, so there is nothing to break out.

Service record

3 Congresses
63rd · 191365th · 1917
Democrat · House · MI63rd–65th
Term datesexact
Members · Michigan
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Samuel Willard Beakes

Representative from Michigan
HOUSED1913–19193 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
74.7%with Democrats
of 312 votes · 25.3% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested75%of 312 · combined
Steepest move+10 pts1915→17, as a Democrat

Career arc

10050019131917
1917–18 · 65th · Democrat · of 85 votes78.8%

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Votes

Every roll call before 1973 has no description. These rows carry a date, a bill number where one exists, how they voted and which side that matched.
Democratic majorityYea
Republican majorityNay
Counts toward scoreYes
Open roll call
Latest 6 shown · 85 contested votes scored in the 65th

By policy area

career

The record carries no policy area for any of these roll calls.

Service record

63rd · 191365th · 1917
Democrat63rd–65th

Party switchers

John Alexander LoganD→R · IL · 40thWesley Wade WatkinsD→R · OK · 105thBen Nighthorse CampbellD→R · CO · 104th
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