Garrett Davis, former U.S. Senator for Kentucky

Dates	Title	State / District
1861-1873	Senator	Kentucky
1845-1847	Representative	Kentucky's 8^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Kentucky's 8^th District
1839-1843	Representative	Kentucky's 12^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1861 to Dec 1872, Davis missed 1,033 of 3,803 roll call votes, which is 27.2%. This is better than the median of 30.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1872. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	66	3	4.5%	45^th
1862 Mar-May	146	6	4.1%	18^th
1862 Jun-Jul	214	18	8.4%	27^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	246	35	14.2%	64^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	10	14.5%	46^th
1864 Mar-May	167	12	7.2%	15^th
1864 Jun-Jul	181	41	22.7%	62^nd
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	33	20.5%	53^rd
1863 Mar-Mar	19	1	5.3%	46^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	6	15.4%	68^th
1866 Mar-May	102	13	12.7%	33^rd
1866 Jun-Jul	137	17	12.4%	16^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	57	26.3%	58^th
1865 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	31	31.6%	74^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	5	14.3%	33^rd
1867 Nov-Nov	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	55	7	12.7%	33^rd
1868 Mar-May	180	22	12.2%	29^th
1868 Jun-Jul	186	49	26.3%	51^st
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	63^rd
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	156	19	12.2%	11^th
1869 Mar-Apr	58	11	19.0%	44^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	7	8.6%	25^th
1870 Mar-May	167	56	33.5%	63^rd
1870 Jun-Jul	203	56	27.6%	48^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	194	41	21.1%	33^rd
1869 Apr-Apr	25	1	4.0%	10^th
1871 Mar-Apr	61	9	14.8%	33^rd
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	37	46.8%	84^th
1872 Mar-May	339	334	98.5%	99^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	93	100.0%	95^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	1	1	100.0%	97^th
1871 May-May	17	1	5.9%	26^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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