Rep. Hiram Smith
Former Representative for Iowa’s 7th District
Smith was the representative for Iowa’s 7th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1883 to 1885.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1884 to Mar 1885, Smith missed 31 of 146 roll call votes, which is 21.2%. This is better than the median of 29.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1885. 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