George McDuffie, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1842-1847	Senator	South Carolina
1833-1835	Representative	South Carolina's 5^th District
1831-1833	Representative	South Carolina's 5^th District
1829-1831	Representative	South Carolina's 5^th District
1827-1829	Representative	South Carolina's 5^th District
1825-1827	Representative	South Carolina's 5^th District
1823-1825	Representative	South Carolina's 5^th District
1821-1823	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Feb 1842 to Aug 1846, McDuffie missed 223 of 675 roll call votes, which is 33.0%. This is worse than the median of 16.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1846. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	1	1	100.0%	96^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	123	43	35.0%	91^st
1844 Jan-Feb	28	13	46.4%	91^st
1844 Mar-May	106	18	17.0%	32^nd
1844 Jun-Jun	76	40	52.6%	97^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	43	45.3%	95^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	28	11	39.3%	89^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	39	23.4%	79^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	14	28.0%	73^rd
1845 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	82^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