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Milledge Luke Bonham
Representative from South CarolinaHOUSEDEMOCRAT1857–1861ID B000616
LegislationHEADLINE
91%with Dems
of 410 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
91%with Dems
of 410 · both combined
Steepest move
+9 pts
1857 → 1859
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 ↓1857
1859–6036th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
95.6%with Democrats
of 181 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1857 → 1859, +9 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
Dec 19, 1860H.R. 866LEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Dec 19, 1860H.R. 866LEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Dec 13, 1860noneLEGISLATIONYEADEM 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
Dec 10, 1860H.R. 863LEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Dec 6, 1860noneLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Dec 6, 1860H.R. 50LEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Dec 6, 1860H.R. 50LEGISLATIONYEANEITHER · NOT SCORED
Dec 5, 1860H.R. 24LEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Jun 25, 1860H.R. 714LEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
9 most recent roll calls shown · 181 contested votes scored in the 36th 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
2 Congresses35th · 185736th · 1859
Democrat · House · SC35th–36th
Term datesexact