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Jerome Bayard Clark

Representative from North Carolina
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1929–1949ID C000439
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LegislationHEADLINE
85%with Dems
of 709 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
85%with Dems
of 709 · both combined
Steepest move
−12 pts
1935 → 1937
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 ↓1929193519411947
1947–4880th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
82.6%with Democrats
of 46 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1935 → 1937, −12 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
Jun 19, 1948H.R. 6481No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Jun 18, 1948H.R. 6959No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jun 18, 1948H.R. 6771No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 6771), 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
Jun 18, 1948H.R. 6771No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYBOTH · NOT SCORED
Jun 17, 1948H.Res. 685No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Jun 17, 1948S. 110No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Jun 16, 1948H.R. 6355No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Jun 16, 1948H.R. 6935No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Jun 11, 1948H.R. 6396No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
9 most recent roll calls shown · 46 contested votes scored in the 80th 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

10 Congresses
71st · 192980th · 1947
Democrat · House · NC71st–80th
Term datesexact
Members · North Carolina
JC

Jerome Bayard Clark

Representative from North Carolina
HOUSED1929–194910 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
84.8%with Democrats
of 709 votes · 15.2% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested85%of 709 · combined
Steepest move−12 pts1935→37, as a Democrat

Career arc

10050019291947
1947–48 · 80th · Democrat · of 46 votes82.6%

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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 · 46 contested votes scored in the 80th

By policy area

career

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

Service record

71st · 192980th · 1947
Democrat71st–80th

Party switchers

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