Ames was a senator from Mississippi and was a Republican. He served from 1870 to 1875.
![Photo of Sen. Adelbert Ames [R-MS, 1870-1875]](/static/legislator-photos/400827-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1870 to Jan 1874, Ames missed 465 of 1,424 roll call votes, which is 32.7%. This is on par with the median of 31.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1874. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
