Richard Clarke, former Representative from Alabama's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District
1893-1895	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District
1891-1893	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District
1889-1891	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1889 to Mar 1897, Clarke missed 576 of 1,400 roll call votes, which is 41.1%. 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 1889-Feb 1890	72	33	45.8%	71^st
1890 Mar-May	109	20	18.3%	28^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	99	58.6%	75^th
1890 Sep-Sep	52	38	73.1%	76^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	101	58.4%	94^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	18	31.0%	41^st
1892 Apr-Jul	157	36	22.9%	17^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	1	25.0%	48^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	20	25.3%	27^th
1893 Aug-Nov	67	21	31.3%	37^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	42	31.6%	33^rd
1894 Apr-Jul	99	46	46.5%	47^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	11	55.0%	70^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	7	14.6%	24^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	17	9	52.9%	93^rd
1896 Mar-May	53	32	60.4%	83^rd
1896 Jun-Jun	28	9	32.1%	46^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	33	53.2%	75^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