Rep. Ezra Darby
Former Representative for New Jersey
Darby was the representative for New Jersey and was a Republican. He served from 1807 to 1809.
He was previously the representative for New Jersey as a Republican from 1805 to 1807.
Legislators who enslaved Black people
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1805 to Jan 1809, Darby missed 42 of 209 roll call votes, which is 20.1%. This is on par with the median of 19.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1809. 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
