Charles Jones, former Senator for Florida

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Jones was a senator from Florida and was a Democrat. He served from 1881 to 1887.

He was previously a senator from Florida as a Democrat from 1875 to 1881.

Photo of Sen. Charles Jones [D-FL, 1881-1887]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1875 to Mar 1887, Jones missed 1,704 of 3,463 roll call votes, which is 49.2%. This is worse than the median of 30.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1887. 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 1875-Mar 1876	89	27	30.3%	53^rd
1876 Apr-Jul	186	109	58.6%	88^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	23	45.1%	75^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	19	22.6%	41^st
1875 Mar-Mar	24	2	8.3%	19^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	15	21.7%	48^th
1878 Mar-May	110	36	32.7%	64^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	16	19.3%	28^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	72	30.5%	56^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	8	53.3%	86^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	35	18.3%	23^rd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	18	36.7%	63^rd
1880 Mar-May	127	70	55.1%	87^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	7	17.9%	32^nd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	93	56.7%	91^st
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	36	37.5%	69^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	108	50.9%	84^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	26	68.4%	84^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	169	42.1%	70^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	72	40.4%	61^st
1881 Oct-Oct	61	49	80.3%	65^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	25	38.5%	60^th
1884 Mar-May	114	67	58.8%	84^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	22	28.2%	39^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	123	71.9%	95^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	63	100.0%	97^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	234	100.0%	99^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	12	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	141	98.6%	96^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	7	77.8%	92^nd

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. Charles Jones

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