Randall Gibson, former Senator from Louisiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1893	Senator	Louisiana
1883-1889	Senator	Louisiana
1881-1883	Representative	Louisiana's 1^st District
1877-1881	Representative	Louisiana's 1^st District
1875-1877	Representative	Louisiana's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1883 to Jul 1892, Gibson missed 1,028 of 1,827 roll call votes, which is 56.3%. This is worse than the median of 31.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1892. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	23	35.4%	63^rd
1884 Mar-May	110	75	68.2%	91^st
1884 Jun-Jul	77	61	79.2%	94^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	166	84	50.6%	80^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	62	18	29.0%	63^rd
1886 Apr-Jul	226	89	39.4%	67^th
1886 Aug-Aug	10	1	10.0%	33^rd
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	141	82	58.2%	88^th
1885 Mar-Apr	8	4	50.0%	86^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	48	23	47.9%	80^th
1888 Mar-May	58	44	75.9%	98^th
1888 Jun-Aug	61	28	45.9%	55^th
1888 Sep-Oct	11	11	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	193	111	57.5%	85^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	28	18	64.3%	87^th
1890 Mar-May	102	55	53.9%	75^th
1890 Jun-Aug	141	87	61.7%	77^th
1890 Sep-Sep	75	27	36.0%	61^st
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	139	104	74.8%	94^th
1889 Mar-Apr	7	4	57.1%	76^th
1892 Jan-Mar	24	15	62.5%	82^nd
1892 Apr-Jul	75	64	85.3%	93^rd

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