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John Parks Newsome

Representative from Alabama
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1943–1945ID N000073
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LegislationHEADLINE
63%with Dems
of 62 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
63%with Dems
of 62 · 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 ↓1943
1943–4478th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
62.9%with Democrats
of 62 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
Dec 5, 1944H.R. 5564No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Nov 22, 1944H.R. 4911No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Sep 18, 1944H.R. 5125No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 5125), how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Nay · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreYes — the parties split.
Where this lands
YEASided with the Republican majority
Sep 18, 1944S. 2051No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Sep 18, 1944S. 2051No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jun 22, 1944H.Res. 422No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jun 22, 1944H.Res. 422No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jun 21, 1944H.R. 4219No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Jun 20, 1944H.R. 4183No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 62 contested votes scored in the 78th 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
78th · 1943
Democrat · House · AL78th–78th
Term datesexact
Members · Alabama
JN

John Parks Newsome

Representative from Alabama
HOUSED1943–19451 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
62.9%with Democrats
of 62 votes · 37.1% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested63%of 62 · combined

Career arc

10050019431943
1943–44 · 78th · Democrat · of 62 votes62.9%

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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 majorityNay
Republican majorityYea
Counts toward scoreYes
Open roll call
Latest 6 shown · 62 contested votes scored in the 78th

By policy area

career

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

Service record

78th · 194378th · 1943
Democrat78th–78th

Party switchers

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