Garret Wall, former Senator for New Jersey

Wall was a senator from New Jersey and was a Democrat. He served from 1835 to 1841.

Photo of Sen. Garret Wall [D-NJ, 1835-1841]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1835 to Mar 1841, Wall missed 375 of 1,176 roll call votes, which is 31.9%. This is much worse than the median of 22.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1841. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	2	9.5%	36^th
1836 Mar-May	142	71	50.0%	93^rd
1836 Jun-Jul	86	21	24.4%	68^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	190	32	16.8%	41^st
1837 Sep-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	39	61.9%	98^th
1838 Mar-May	92	47	51.1%	93^rd
1838 Jun-Jul	78	5	6.4%	11^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	37	27.6%	63^rd
1840 Jan-Feb	36	13	36.1%	84^th
1840 Mar-May	79	43	54.4%	86^th
1840 Jun-Jul	148	45	30.4%	63^rd
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	20	28.2%	70^th

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

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Sen. Garret Wall

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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