John Gaillard, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1825-1827	Senator	South Carolina
1819-1825	Senator	South Carolina
1807-1819	Senator	South Carolina
1804-1807	Senator	South Carolina

Voting Record

From Oct 1803 to Feb 1826, Gaillard missed 176 of 1,602 roll call votes, which is 11.0%. This is worse than the median of 9.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1826. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	44	21	47.7%	50^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	4	2	50.0%	50^th
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	68	10	14.7%	50^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	20	3	15.0%	0^th
1807 Dec-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1808 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	50^th
1808 Apr-Apr	20	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1808-Mar 1809	42	3	7.1%	33^rd
1809 Jun-Jun	14	3	21.4%	33^rd
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1810 Feb-Apr	86	3	3.5%	33^rd
1810 May-May	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	53	2	3.8%	33^rd
1809 Mar-Mar	2	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1812 Mar-Jun	77	8	10.4%	0^th
1812 Jul-Jul	10	1	10.0%	67^th
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	89	11	12.4%	67^th
1813 Jun-Aug	63	7	11.1%	0^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	89	21	23.6%	67^th
1814 Sep-Nov	18	2	11.1%	33^rd
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	86	2	2.3%	33^rd
1815 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	134	4	3.0%	20^th
Dec 1816-Mar 1817	53	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	67	4	6.0%	10^th
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	9	13.8%	67^th
1820 Jan-May	68	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	1	1.9%	0^th
1822 Jan-May	61	3	4.9%	36^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	3	10.3%	50^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	126	6	4.8%	40^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	11	22.9%	82^nd
Dec 1825-May 1826	39	34	87.2%	94^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