John Barbour Jr., former Senator from Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1893	Senator	Virginia
1885-1887	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1883-1885	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1889 to May 1892, Barbour missed 323 of 558 roll call votes, which is 57.9%. This is worse than the median of 31.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1892. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	28	6	21.4%	31^st
1890 Mar-May	111	72	64.9%	90^th
1890 Jun-Aug	143	90	62.9%	82^nd
1890 Sep-Sep	77	33	42.9%	68^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	138	88	63.8%	85^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	2	22.2%	41^st
1892 Jan-Mar	24	15	62.5%	82^nd
1892 Apr-Jul	28	17	60.7%	84^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