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Jacob Edwin Meeker

Representative from Missouri
HOUSEREPUBLICAN1915–1919ID M000629
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LegislationHEADLINE
15%with Dems
of 128 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
15%with Dems
of 128 · both combined
Steepest move
+11 pts
1915 → 1917
still a Republican

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 ↓1915
1917–1865th Congress
Sat as a Republican
20.7%with Democrats
of 58 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1915 → 1917, +11 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
Sep 24, 1918H.R. 152No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Sep 24, 1918H.R. 152No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEANEITHER · NOT SCORED
Sep 23, 1918H.R. 11945No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 11945), 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
Sep 20, 1918H.R. 12863No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Sep 17, 1918H.R. 12863No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Aug 24, 1918H.R. 12731No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Aug 24, 1918H.R. 12731No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Aug 24, 1918H.R. 12731No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jul 6, 1918H.R. 9054No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 58 contested votes scored in the 65th 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
64th · 191565th · 1917
Republican · House · MO64th–65th
Term datesexact
Members · Missouri
JM

Jacob Edwin Meeker

Representative from Missouri
HOUSER1915–19192 CONGRESSES
Compare
LegislationHEADLINE
14.8%with Democrats
of 128 votes · 85.2% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested15%of 128 · combined
Steepest move+11 pts1915→17, as a Republican

Career arc

10050019151917
1917–18 · 65th · Republican · of 58 votes20.7%

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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 · 58 contested votes scored in the 65th

By policy area

career

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

Service record

64th · 191565th · 1917
Republican64th–65th

Party switchers

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