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George Washington Jones

Representative from Texas
HOUSEOTHER PARTY1879–1883ID J000223
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LegislationHEADLINE
54%with Dems
of 473 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
54%with Dems
of 473 · both combined
Steepest move
+15 pts
1879 → 1881
under one label

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 ↓1879
1881–8247th Congress
Sat under another party label
62.4%with Democrats
of 197 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1879 → 1881, +15 pts — within one party label.
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 3, 1883noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Mar 3, 1883noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1883noneNo 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
Mar 3, 1883noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Mar 3, 1883noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Mar 3, 1883noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Mar 3, 1883noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1883H.R. 5538No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 3, 1883noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 197 contested votes scored in the 47th 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

2 Congresses
46th · 187947th · 1881
Other party · House · TX46th–47th
Term datesexact
Members · Texas
GJ

George Washington Jones

Representative from Texas
HOUSEO1879–18832 CONGRESSES
Compare
LegislationHEADLINE
53.7%with Democrats
of 473 votes · 46.3% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested54%of 473 · combined
Steepest move+15 pts1879→81, under another label

Career arc

10050018791881
1881–82 · 47th · Other party · of 197 votes62.4%

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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 · 197 contested votes scored in the 47th

By policy area

career

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

Service record

46th · 187947th · 1881
Other party46th–47th

Party switchers

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