Rep. Frank Morey
Former Representative for Louisiana’s 5th District
Morey was the representative for Louisiana’s 5th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1875 to 1877.
He was previously the representative for Louisiana’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from Dec 1, 1873 to Mar 3, 1875; and the representative for Louisiana’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1869 to Mar 3, 1873.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1870 to May 1876, Morey missed 531 of 1,245 roll call votes, which is 42.7%. This is much worse than the median of 26.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1876. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000