Grundy was a senator from Tennessee and was a Democrat. He served from 1839 to 1841.
He was previously a senator from Tennessee as a Democrat from 1833 to 1839; a senator from Tennessee as a Jackson from 1829 to 1833; the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1813 to 1815; and the representative for Tennessee’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from 1811 to 1813.
![Photo of Sen. Felix Grundy [D-TN, 1839-1841]](/static/legislator-photos/404854-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1829 to Jul 1840, Grundy missed 284 of 1,859 roll call votes, which is 15.3%. This is better than the median of 22.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1840. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
