Arthur Bagby, former Senator from Alabama

Dates	Title	Representing
1843-1849	Senator	Alabama
1841-1843	Senator	Alabama

Voting Record

From Dec 1841 to Jun 1848, Bagby missed 230 of 1,291 roll call votes, which is 17.8%. This is better than the median of 19.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1848. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	42	31	73.8%	93^rd
1842 Apr-Jul	194	44	22.7%	50^th
1842 Aug-Aug	127	32	25.2%	71^st
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	21	16.5%	50^th
1844 Jan-Feb	28	1	3.6%	14^th
1844 Mar-May	106	18	17.0%	21^st
1844 Jun-Jun	76	18	23.7%	43^rd
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	7	7.4%	31^st
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	29	4	13.8%	64^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	18	10.8%	24^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	3	6.0%	12^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	6	4.8%	7^th
1845 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	14	17.1%	49^th
1848 Apr-Jul	41	13	31.7%	71^st

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