Augustus Bacon, former Senator for Georgia

Bacon was a senator from Georgia and was a Democrat. He served from 1907 to 1915.

He was previously a senator from Georgia as a Democrat from 1901 to 1907; and a senator from Georgia as a Democrat from 1895 to 1901.

Photo of Sen. Augustus Bacon [D-GA, 1907-1915]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1895 to Feb 1914, Bacon missed 451 of 2,034 roll call votes, which is 22.2%. This is better than the median of 30.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1914. 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
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	2	5.6%	0^th
1896 Mar-May	66	8	12.1%	11^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	13	54.2%	56^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	14	19.7%	0^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	33	16.5%	10^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	4	15.4%	40^th
1898 Mar-May	51	11	21.6%	20^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	7	13.2%	30^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	27	52.9%	80^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	15	75.0%	92^nd
1900 Mar-May	57	14	24.6%	23^rd
1900 Jun-Jun	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	27	33.8%	64^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	1	3.8%	13^th
1902 Mar-May	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	2	8.7%	27^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	4	22.2%	20^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	5	13.9%	10^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	12	21.4%	45^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	49	4	8.2%	17^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	6	19.4%	30^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	8	21.1%	36^th
1908 Mar-May	49	17	34.7%	48^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	12	34.3%	56^th
1909 Apr-Aug	130	7	5.4%	17^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1910 Mar-May	36	8	22.2%	49^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	9	22.0%	40^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	52	21	40.4%	83^rd
1911 May-Aug	94	8	8.5%	14^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	35	15	42.9%	79^th
1912 Apr-Jul	105	9	8.6%	13^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	2	3.9%	4^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	111	81	73.0%	97^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	6	15.8%	31^st
1913 Aug-Nov	109	20	18.3%	30^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	53	19	35.8%	69^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	0	0.0%	0^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. Augustus Bacon

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Missed Votes

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