John Forsyth, former Senator from Georgia

Dates	Title	Representing
1831-1835	Senator	Georgia
1829-1831	Senator	Georgia
1827-1829	Representative	Georgia's 2^nd District
1825-1827	Representative	Georgia
1823-1825	Representative	Georgia
1818-1819	Senator	Georgia
1817-1819	Representative	Georgia
1815-1817	Representative	Georgia
1813-1815	Representative	Georgia

Voting Record

From Dec 1818 to Jun 1834, Forsyth missed 178 of 851 roll call votes, which is 20.9%. This is worse than the median of 15.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1834. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	47	10	21.3%	33^rd
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	25	14.0%	74^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	82	19	23.2%	80^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	12	1	8.3%	37^th
1832 Mar-May	81	16	19.8%	68^th
1832 Jun-Jul	188	37	19.7%	91^st
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	136	44	32.4%	71^st
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	12	1	8.3%	81^st
1834 Mar-May	67	17	25.4%	69^th
1834 Jun-Jun	48	8	16.7%	59^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