Augustus Garland, former Senator for Arkansas

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Garland was a senator from Arkansas and was a Democrat. He served from 1883 to 1885.

He was previously a senator from Arkansas as a Democrat from 1877 to 1883.

Photo of Sen. Augustus Garland [D-AR, 1883-1885]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1877 to Mar 1885, Garland missed 930 of 2,568 roll call votes, which is 36.2%. This is on par with the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1885. 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
1877 Oct-Dec	71	8	11.3%	45^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	24	34.8%	69^th
1878 Mar-May	110	44	40.0%	69^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	83	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	33	14.0%	17^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	6	3.1%	2^nd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	21	42.9%	73^rd
1880 Mar-May	127	23	18.1%	24^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	27	69.2%	78^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	16	9.8%	6^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	26	27.1%	51^st
1882 Apr-Jul	212	127	59.9%	91^st
1882 Aug-Aug	38	38	100.0%	92^nd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	157	39.2%	62^nd
1881 Mar-Mar	178	170	95.5%	97^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	5	8.2%	15^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	15	23.1%	30^th
1884 Mar-May	114	17	14.9%	13^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	20	25.6%	36^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	70	40.9%	65^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 Garland

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Missed Votes

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