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Frederick John Kern

Representative from Illinois
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1901–1903ID K000131
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LegislationHEADLINE
85%with Dems
of 85 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
85%with Dems
of 85 · 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 ↓1901
1901–0257th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
84.7%with Democrats
of 85 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
Mar 3, 1903S. 5118No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 2, 1903S. 4641No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 2, 1903H.R. 15802No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 15802), 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
Mar 2, 1903H.R. 17546No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 2, 1903S. 7414No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 2, 1903H.R. 17046No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 2, 1903noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 2, 1903noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 1, 1903noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 85 contested votes scored in the 57th 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
57th · 1901
Democrat · House · IL57th–57th
Term datesexact
Members · Illinois
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Frederick John Kern

Representative from Illinois
HOUSED1901–19031 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
84.7%with Democrats
of 85 votes · 15.3% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested85%of 85 · combined

Career arc

10050019011901
1901–02 · 57th · Democrat · of 85 votes84.7%

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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 · 85 contested votes scored in the 57th

By policy area

career

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

Service record

57th · 190157th · 1901
Democrat57th–57th

Party switchers

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