George Gray, former Senator for Delaware

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Gray was a senator from Delaware and was a Democrat. He served from 1893 to 1899.

He was previously a senator from Delaware as a Democrat from 1887 to 1893; and a senator from Delaware as a Democrat from 1885 to 1887.

Photo of Sen. George Gray [D-DE, 1893-1899]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1885 to Mar 1899, Gray missed 1,067 of 2,718 roll call votes, which is 39.3%. This is on par with the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1899. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	17	27.0%	54^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	64	27.4%	50^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	1	8.3%	4^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	60	42.0%	79^th
1885 Mar-Apr	3	1	33.3%	62^nd
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	20	40.0%	66^th
1888 Mar-May	64	22	34.4%	62^nd
1888 Jun-Aug	62	21	33.9%	41^st
1888 Sep-Oct	14	3	21.4%	25^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	56	28.1%	41^st
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	20	64.5%	83^rd
1890 Mar-May	114	38	33.3%	51^st
1890 Jun-Aug	150	71	47.3%	59^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	15	19.0%	39^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	71	49.7%	84^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	8	88.9%	82^nd
1892 Jan-Mar	26	18	69.2%	88^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	27	34.6%	39^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	66	62.9%	86^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	7	9.1%	6^th
1894 Jan-Mar	35	17	48.6%	82^nd
1894 Apr-Jul	321	138	43.0%	66^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	6	28.6%	39^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	35	34.7%	52^nd
1893 Apr-Apr	6	2	33.3%	43^rd
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	11	30.6%	54^th
1896 Mar-May	66	18	27.3%	34^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	24	100.0%	85^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	21	29.6%	26^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	81	40.5%	55^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	10	38.5%	70^th
1898 Mar-May	51	27	52.9%	83^rd
1898 Jun-Jul	53	41	77.4%	94^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	30	58.8%	84^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

Sen. George Gray

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