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John Robert Brown

Representative from Virginia
HOUSEREPUBLICAN1887–1889ID B000931
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LegislationHEADLINE
12%with Dems
of 104 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
12%with Dems
of 104 · both combined

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 ↓1887
1887–8850th Congress
Sat as a Republican
11.5%with Democrats
of 104 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
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 2, 1889noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYBOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 2, 1889H.R. 12571No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 2, 1889H.R. 12008No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 12008), 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 2, 1889H.R. 12008No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYBOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 1, 1889H.R. 1368No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1889S. 2511No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Feb 28, 1889H.R. 11651No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Feb 28, 1889H.R. 11651No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Feb 25, 1889noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 104 contested votes scored in the 50th 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

1 Congresses
50th · 1887
Republican · House · VA50th–50th
Term datesexact
Members · Virginia
JB

John Robert Brown

Representative from Virginia
HOUSER1887–18891 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
11.5%with Democrats
of 104 votes · 88.5% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested12%of 104 · combined

Career arc

10050018871887
1887–88 · 50th · Republican · of 104 votes11.5%

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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 majorityYea
Counts toward scoreNo
Open roll call
Latest 6 shown · 104 contested votes scored in the 50th

By policy area

career

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

Service record

50th · 188750th · 1887
Republican50th–50th

Party switchers

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