George Spencer, former Senator from Alabama

Dates	Title	Representing
1873-1879	Senator	Alabama
1868-1873	Senator	Alabama

Voting Record

From Jul 1868 to Mar 1879, Spencer missed 1,051 of 3,069 roll call votes, which is 34.2%. This is worse than the median of 29.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1879. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1868 Jun-Jul	22	18	81.8%	92^nd
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	69^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	155	68	43.9%	92^nd
1869 Mar-Apr	58	14	24.1%	53^rd
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	10	12.3%	13^th
1870 Mar-May	167	47	28.1%	31^st
1870 Jun-Jul	201	48	23.9%	19^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	192	65	33.9%	59^th
1869 Apr-Apr	25	4	16.0%	33^rd
1871 Mar-Apr	60	15	25.0%	79^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	14	17.7%	37^th
1872 Mar-May	336	137	40.8%	75^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	59	63.4%	80^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	191	81	42.4%	80^th
1871 May-May	15	6	40.0%	68^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	10	17.5%	35^th
1874 Mar-May	112	35	31.3%	59^th
1874 Jun-Jun	79	36	45.6%	79^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	148	45	30.4%	57^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	11	68.8%	88^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	87	26	29.9%	59^th
1876 Apr-Jul	176	95	54.0%	69^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	14	27.5%	45^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	79	28	35.4%	67^th
1875 Mar-Mar	20	1	5.0%	17^th
1877 Oct-Dec	69	35	50.7%	74^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	68	17	25.0%	61^st
1878 Mar-May	107	38	35.5%	58^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	11	13.3%	13^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	228	54	23.7%	35^th
1877 Mar-Mar	13	8	61.5%	92^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