Alfred Colquitt, former Senator from Georgia

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1895	Senator	Georgia
1883-1889	Senator	Georgia
1853-1855	Representative	Georgia's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1883 to Jun 1894, Colquitt missed 1,016 of 2,016 roll call votes, which is 50.4%. This is worse than the median of 31.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1894. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	6	9.2%	13^th
1884 Mar-May	109	47	43.1%	72^nd
1884 Jun-Jul	78	24	30.8%	44^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	164	72	43.9%	66^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	60	15	25.0%	50^th
1886 Apr-Jul	219	106	48.4%	80^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	5	41.7%	60^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	138	76	55.1%	88^th
1885 Mar-Apr	8	2	25.0%	67^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	49	19	38.8%	67^th
1888 Mar-May	61	37	60.7%	88^th
1888 Jun-Aug	58	29	50.0%	59^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	3	21.4%	43^rd
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	185	87	47.0%	69^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	30	16	53.3%	70^th
1890 Mar-May	110	39	35.5%	54^th
1890 Jun-Aug	147	57	38.8%	54^th
1890 Sep-Sep	76	22	28.9%	52^nd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	137	120	87.6%	98^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	8	88.9%	94^th
1892 Jan-Mar	25	12	48.0%	67^th
1892 Apr-Jul	72	39	54.2%	76^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	90	89	98.9%	97^th
1893 Aug-Oct	66	66	100.0%	98^th
1894 Jan-Mar	26	14	53.8%	85^th
1894 Apr-Jul	2	1	50.0%	75^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	5	83.3%	72^nd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo