Haynes was the representative for Georgia and was a Democrat. He served from 1837 to 1839.
He was previously the representative for Georgia as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837; the representative for Georgia as a Jackson from 1829 to 1831; the representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district as a Jackson from 1827 to 1829; and the representative for Georgia as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1826 to Mar 1839, Haynes missed 190 of 1,551 roll call votes, which is 12.3%. This is better than the median of 23.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1839. 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
