Whitmell Pugh Martin

Representative from Louisiana

HOUSEOTHER PARTY→DEMOCRAT1915–1929ID M000201

LegislationHEADLINE

70%with Dems

of 644 votes

Nominations

—with Dems

of 0 · confirmations only

All contested

70%with Dems

of 644 · both combined

Steepest move

+47 pts

1915 → 1917

under one label

Changed parties

66th

O → D · first Congress under it

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 ↓191519211927O→D · 66th

1927–2870th Congress

Sat as a Democrat

88.9%with Democrats

of 36 contested votes

Votes for this Congress are open below

Steepest move: 1915 → 1917, +47 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, 1929H.J.Res. 402No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY

Mar 2, 1929S.J.Res. 132No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY

Feb 28, 1929S. 2901No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED

Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (S. 2901), 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

Open roll call

Feb 25, 1929H.R. 17223No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY

Feb 19, 1929H.R. 15089No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED

Feb 18, 1929S. 1462No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY

Feb 15, 1929H.R. 16926No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYBOTH · NOT SCORED

Feb 8, 1929H.R. 16714No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY

Jan 31, 1929H.R. 303No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY

9 most recent roll calls shown · 36 contested votes scored in the 70th 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

7 Congresses

64th · 191566th · 191970th · 1927

Other party · House · LA64th–65th

Democrat · House · LA66th–70th

Term datesexact

Whitmell Pugh Martin

Representative from Louisiana

HOUSEO→D1915–19297 CONGRESSES

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LegislationHEADLINE

69.7%with Democrats

of 644 votes · 30.3% with Republicans

Nominations—of 0 votes

All contested70%of 644 · combined

Steepest move+47 pts1915→17, under another label

Changed parties66thO→D

Career arc

100500O→D19151927

1927–28 · 70th · Democrat · of 36 votes88.9%

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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 · 36 contested votes scored in the 70th

By policy area

career

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

Service record

64th · 191570th · 1927

Other party64th–65th

Democrat66th–70th

Other party switchers

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