John Gordon, former Senator from Georgia

Dates	Title	Representing
1891-1897	Senator	Georgia
1873-1881	Senator	Georgia

Voting Record

From Mar 1873 to Mar 1897, Gordon missed 1,295 of 2,643 roll call votes, which is 49.0%. This is worse than the median of 32.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	54	18	33.3%	57^th
1874 Mar-May	105	41	39.0%	71^st
1874 Jun-Jun	81	19	23.5%	29^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	146	44	30.1%	57^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	5	31.3%	43^rd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	85	42	49.4%	63^rd
1876 Apr-Jul	182	99	54.4%	71^st
1876 Aug-Aug	50	13	26.0%	57^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	78	42	53.8%	75^th
1875 Mar-Mar	20	2	10.0%	14^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	6	8.5%	33^rd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	18	26.1%	67^th
1878 Mar-May	108	55	50.9%	83^rd
1878 Jun-Jun	83	11	13.3%	17^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	232	37	15.9%	17^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	4	26.7%	64^th
1879 Mar-Jul	173	125	72.3%	86^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	47	21	44.7%	79^th
1880 Mar-May	114	51	44.7%	79^th
1892 Jan-Mar	25	22	88.0%	93^rd
1892 Apr-Jul	78	74	94.9%	98^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	97	70	72.2%	92^nd
1893 Aug-Oct	67	36	53.7%	85^th
1894 Jan-Mar	29	14	48.3%	84^th
1894 Apr-Jul	308	185	60.1%	82^nd
1894 Aug-Aug	18	17	94.4%	88^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	96	79	82.3%	96^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	1	16.7%	31^st
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	34	27	79.4%	98^th
1896 Mar-May	64	42	65.6%	84^th
1896 Jun-Jun	22	21	95.5%	81^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	70	54	77.1%	88^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