Rep. George Holcombe
Former Representative for New Jersey
Holcombe was the representative for New Jersey and was a Jackson. He served from 1827 to 1829.
He was previously the representative for New Jersey as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827; the representative for New Jersey as (unknown party) from 1823 to 1825; and the representative for New Jersey as a Republican from 1821 to 1823.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1821 to Feb 1829, Holcombe missed 106 of 310 roll call votes, which is 34.2%. This is much worse than the median of 16.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1829. 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
