Joseph Washington, former Representative from Tennessee's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Tennessee's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1887 to Mar 1897, Washington missed 772 of 1,725 roll call votes, which is 44.8%. This is worse than the median of 36.5% among the lifetime records of representatives 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 1887-Feb 1888	39	7	17.9%	35^th
1888 Mar-May	104	50	48.1%	61^st
1888 Jun-Aug	47	19	40.4%	39^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	12	75.0%	57^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	112	27	24.1%	35^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	75	37	49.3%	83^rd
1890 Mar-May	108	35	32.4%	66^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	120	71.0%	91^st
1890 Sep-Sep	53	40	75.5%	79^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	68	39.3%	70^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	11	19.0%	21^st
1892 Apr-Jul	159	64	40.3%	46^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	2	50.0%	70^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	49	62.0%	90^th
1893 Aug-Nov	67	17	25.4%	28^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	66	49.6%	41^st
1894 Apr-Jul	101	38	37.6%	37^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	10	50.0%	65^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	9	18.8%	39^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	17	3	17.6%	50^th
1896 Mar-May	53	34	64.2%	86^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	27	96.4%	89^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	27	43.5%	58^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