Alexander Clay, former Senator for Georgia

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Clay was a senator from Georgia and was a Democrat. He served from 1903 to 1911.

He was previously a senator from Georgia as a Democrat from 1897 to 1903.

Photo of Sen. Alexander Clay [D-GA, 1903-1911]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1897 to Jun 1910, Clay missed 239 of 1,183 roll call votes, which is 20.2%. This is better than the median of 26.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1910. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	200	44	22.0%	29^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	2	7.7%	14^th
1898 Mar-May	51	5	9.8%	5^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	13	24.5%	50^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	8	15.7%	5^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	4	20.0%	31^st
1900 Mar-May	57	13	22.8%	17^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	2	16.7%	24^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	10	12.5%	16^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1902 Mar-May	49	8	16.3%	46^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	4	17.4%	46^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	4	22.2%	16^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	65^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	12	33.3%	34^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	3	5.4%	4^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	49	3	6.1%	16^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	12	38.7%	49^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	7	18.4%	30^th
1908 Mar-May	49	18	36.7%	47^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	4	11.4%	18^th
1909 Apr-Aug	130	40	30.8%	69^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	2	28.6%	31^st
1910 Mar-May	36	10	27.8%	55^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	10	24.4%	48^th

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

Sen. Alexander Clay

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Missed Votes

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