WB
William Devereux Byron
Representative from MarylandHOUSEDEMOCRAT1939–1943ID B001206
LegislationHEADLINE
90%with Dems
of 113 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
90%with Dems
of 113 · both combined
Steepest move
+10 pts
1939 → 1941
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 ↓1939
1941–4277th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
100%with Democrats
of 4 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1939 → 1941, +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
Feb 18, 1941H.R. 2665LEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Feb 18, 1941H.R. 2665LEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Feb 11, 1941H.Res. 90LEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.Res. 90), 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
Feb 8, 1941H.R. 1776LEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Feb 8, 1941H.R. 1776LEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Jan 22, 1941H.R. 1437LEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jan 3, 1941noneLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
7 most recent roll calls shown · 4 contested votes scored in the 77th 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 Congresses76th · 193977th · 1941
Democrat · House · MD76th–77th
Term datesexact