McDuffie was a senator from South Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1843 to 1846.
He was previously a senator from South Carolina as a Democrat from 1842 to 1843; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Nullifier from 1833 to 1835; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Nullifier from 1831 to 1833; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Jackson from 1829 to 1831; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Jackson from 1827 to 1829; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827; the representative for South Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1823 to 1825; and the representative for South Carolina’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1821 to 1823.
![Photo of Sen. George McDuffie [D-SC, 1843-1846]](/static/legislator-photos/407426-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Feb 1842 to Aug 1846, McDuffie missed 229 of 685 roll call votes, which is 33.4%. This is much worse than the median of 16.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1846. 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
