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Thomas Alexander Boyd
Representative from IllinoisHOUSEREPUBLICAN1877–1881ID B000721
LegislationHEADLINE
14%with Dems
of 432 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
14%with Dems
of 432 · 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 ↓1877
1879–8046th Congress
Sat as a Republican
11.4%with Democrats
of 219 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, 1881S. 182LEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 3, 1881S. 365LEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 3, 1881noneLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Nay · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreYes — the parties split.
Where this lands
YEASided with the Republican majority
Mar 3, 1881noneLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1881noneLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1881H.R. 4592LEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1881H.R. 4592LEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1881H.R. 4592LEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1881H.R. 4592LEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 219 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
2 Congresses45th · 187746th · 1879
Republican · House · IL45th–46th
Term datesexact