Clement Clay, former Senator from Alabama

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1841	Senator	Alabama
1833-1835	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District
1831-1833	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District
1829-1831	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Sep 1841, Clay missed 55 of 1,050 roll call votes, which is 5.2%. This is better than the median of 18.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Sep 1841. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	36	1	2.8%	30^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	8	12.7%	36^th
1838 Mar-May	91	5	5.5%	4^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	2	2.6%	4^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	8	6.0%	11^th
1840 Jan-Feb	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1840 Mar-May	79	8	10.1%	21^st
1840 Jun-Jul	140	14	10.0%	21^st
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	2	2.8%	0^th
1841 Jun-Sep	316	7	2.2%	6^th
1841 Mar-Mar	6	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