Alfred Iverson Sr., former Senator from Georgia

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1861	Senator	Georgia
1847-1849	Representative	Georgia's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1856 to Jan 1861, Iverson missed 289 of 1,564 roll call votes, which is 18.5%. This is better than the median of 21.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1856 Jan-Mar	32	6	18.8%	26^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	19	14.5%	18^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	34	27.4%	56^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	2	12.5%	21^st
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	45	31.3%	62^nd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	2	3.5%	9^th
1858 Mar-May	216	31	14.4%	28^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	29	25.0%	46^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	29	10.9%	9^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	6	20.7%	52^nd
1858 Jun-Jun	9	1	11.1%	29^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	7	16.3%	46^th
1860 Mar-May	158	30	19.0%	21^st
1860 Jun-Jun	131	30	22.9%	35^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	54	16	29.6%	65^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	2	6.3%	25^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	0	0.0%	0^th

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