Sen. Augustus Dodge
Former Senator for Iowa
Dodge was a senator from Iowa and was a Democrat. He served from 1848 to 1855.
He was previously the representative for Iowa’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1845 to 1846; the representative for Iowa’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845; and the representative for Iowa’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1840 to 1843.
![Photo of Sen. Augustus Dodge [D-IA, 1848-1855]](/static/legislator-photos/403509-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1847 to Mar 1855, Dodge missed 232 of 1,488 roll call votes, which is 15.6%. This is better than the median of 25.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1855. 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
