Rep. David Garland
Former Representative for Virginia’s 21st District
Garland was the representative for Virginia’s 21st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1809 to 1811.
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1810 to Mar 1811, Garland missed 41 of 242 roll call votes, which is 16.9%. This is on par with the median of 19.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1811. 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
