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Thomas Langrell Harris

Representative from Illinois
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1857–1859ID H000255
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LegislationHEADLINE
47%with Dems
of 195 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
47%with Dems
of 195 · 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 ↓1857
1857–5835th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
47.2%with Democrats
of 195 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
Jun 14, 1858noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jun 14, 1858noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Jun 14, 1858noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Yea · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreNo — both party majorities voted Yea.
Where this lands
NAYVoted against both majorities — not scored
Jun 14, 1858H.R. 652No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jun 14, 1858noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jun 14, 1858noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Jun 12, 1858noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Jun 12, 1858noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Jun 12, 1858H.R. 558No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 195 contested votes scored in the 35th 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
35th · 1857
Democrat · House · IL35th–35th
Term datesexact
Members · Illinois
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Thomas Langrell Harris

Representative from Illinois
HOUSED1857–18591 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
47.2%with Democrats
of 195 votes · 52.8% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested47%of 195 · combined

Career arc

10050018571857
1857–58 · 35th · Democrat · of 195 votes47.2%

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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 · 195 contested votes scored in the 35th

By policy area

career

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

Service record

35th · 185735th · 1857
Democrat35th–35th

Party switchers

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