Brown was a senator from Mississippi and was a Democrat. He served from 1859 to 1861.
He was previously a senator from Mississippi as a Democrat from 1854 to 1859; the representative for Mississippi’s 4th congressional district as a States Rights from 1851 to 1853; the representative for Mississippi’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851; the representative for Mississippi’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1847 to 1849; and the representative for Mississippi as a Democrat from 1839 to 1841.
![Photo of Sen. Albert Brown [D-MS, 1859-1861]](/static/legislator-photos/401857-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1854 to Jan 1861, Brown missed 413 of 2,062 roll call votes, which is 20.0%. This is on par with the median of 21.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1861. 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
