George Wallace Jones, former Senator for Iowa

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Jones was a senator from Iowa and was a Democrat. He served from 1853 to 1859.

He was previously a senator from Iowa as a Democrat from 1848 to 1853; the representative for Wisconsin as a Democrat from 1837 to 1839; and the representative for Michigan as a Democrat from 1835 to 1837.

Photo of Sen. George Wallace Jones [D-IA, 1853-1859]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1859, Jones missed 705 of 2,695 roll call votes, which is 26.2%. This is on par with the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1859. 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 1847-Mar 1848	34	34	100.0%	93^rd
1848 Apr-Jul	30	30	100.0%	89^th
1848 Aug-Aug	2	2	100.0%	94^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	75	8	10.7%	6^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	1	4.5%	12^th
1850 Mar-May	64	11	17.2%	53^rd
1850 Jun-Aug	154	34	22.1%	71^st
1850 Sep-Sep	108	12	11.1%	22^nd
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	11	7.8%	11^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	3	7.9%	5^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	23	28.7%	43^rd
1852 Aug-Aug	91	19	20.9%	24^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	35	27.6%	59^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	13	59.1%	83^rd
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	51	14	27.5%	44^th
1854 Apr-Jul	230	95	41.3%	74^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	15	23.4%	41^st
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	36	20.2%	33^rd
1853 Mar-Apr	23	3	13.0%	14^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	5	15.6%	23^rd
1856 Apr-Jul	133	39	29.3%	43^rd
1856 Aug-Aug	124	29	23.4%	45^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	16	100.0%	79^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	35	24.3%	50^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	19	33.3%	73^rd
1858 Mar-May	217	29	13.4%	22^nd
1858 Jun-Jun	121	45	37.2%	72^nd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	269	72	26.8%	58^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	17	58.6%	77^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	0	0.0%	0^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 Wallace Jones

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