Rep. Howell Cobb
Former Representative for Georgia
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Oct 1807 to Dec 1811, Cobb missed 296 of 557 roll call votes, which is 53.1%. This is much worse than the median of 18.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1811. 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
