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Walter McKennon Denny

Representative from Mississippi
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1895–1897ID D000251
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LegislationHEADLINE
87%with Dems
of 52 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
87%with Dems
of 52 · 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 ↓1895
1895–9654th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
86.5%with Democrats
of 52 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
Feb 27, 1897H.R. 10090No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Feb 27, 1897noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYBOTH · NOT SCORED
Feb 27, 1897H.R. 10090No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 10090), 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 22, 1897H.R. 10329No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Feb 22, 1897H.R. 10329No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Feb 16, 1897S. 894No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Feb 9, 1897H.R. 1139No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Feb 9, 1897H.R. 1185No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Feb 9, 1897H.R. 7864No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
9 most recent roll calls shown · 52 contested votes scored in the 54th 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
54th · 1895
Democrat · House · MS54th–54th
Term datesexact
Members · Mississippi
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Walter McKennon Denny

Representative from Mississippi
HOUSED1895–18971 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
86.5%with Democrats
of 52 votes · 13.5% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested87%of 52 · combined

Career arc

10050018951895
1895–96 · 54th · Democrat · of 52 votes86.5%

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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 · 52 contested votes scored in the 54th

By policy area

career

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

Service record

54th · 189554th · 1895
Democrat54th–54th

Party switchers

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