Brooks was the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1869 to 1873.
![Photo of Rep. George Brooks [R-MA7, 1869-1873]](/static/legislator-photos/401836-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1869 to May 1872, Brooks missed 65 of 836 roll call votes, which is 7.8%. This is better than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1872. 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
