James Blount, former Representative from Georgia's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1891-1893	Representative	Georgia's 6^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Georgia's 6^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Georgia's 6^th District
1885-1887	Representative	Georgia's 6^th District
1883-1885	Representative	Georgia's 6^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Georgia's 6^th District
1877-1881	Representative	Georgia's 6^th District
1875-1877	Representative	Georgia's 6^th District
1873-1875	Representative	Georgia's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1873 to Mar 1893, Blount missed 1,022 of 3,766 roll call votes, which is 27.1%. This is better than the median of 33.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1893. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	5	6.4%	14^th
1874 Mar-May	101	4	4.0%	0^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	5	8.5%	29^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	233	33	14.2%	36^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	60	5	8.3%	21^st
1876 Apr-Jul	105	42	40.0%	63^rd
1876 Aug-Aug	37	37	100.0%	95^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	123	18	14.6%	42^nd
1877 Oct-Dec	31	6	19.4%	63^rd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	2	3.6%	21^st
1878 Mar-May	103	21	20.4%	58^th
1878 Jun-Jun	64	12	18.8%	46^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	112	19	17.0%	29^th
1879 Mar-Jul	132	62	47.0%	83^rd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	6	17.6%	40^th
1880 Mar-May	115	48	41.7%	77^th
1880 Jun-Jun	30	12	40.0%	57^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	118	21	17.8%	52^nd
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	73	14	19.2%	32^nd
1882 Apr-Jul	166	93	56.0%	66^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	4	57.1%	61^st
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	33	33.0%	64^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	10	29.4%	71^st
1884 Mar-May	70	7	10.0%	19^th
1884 Jun-Jul	82	25	30.5%	42^nd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	24	16.4%	34^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	37	6	16.2%	48^th
1886 Apr-Jul	152	25	16.4%	33^rd
1886 Aug-Aug	6	2	33.3%	56^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	14	13.6%	28^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	8	20.5%	46^th
1888 Mar-May	105	60	57.1%	78^th
1888 Jun-Aug	45	11	24.4%	25^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	5	31.3%	24^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	21	18.6%	26^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	78	36	46.2%	64^th
1890 Mar-May	109	23	21.1%	27^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	80	47.3%	66^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	28	52.8%	45^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	53	30.6%	52^nd
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	17	29.3%	44^th
1892 Apr-Jul	158	41	25.9%	28^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	4	100.0%	70^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	20	25.3%	25^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