Rep. James Brown Clay
Former Representative for Kentucky’s 8th District
Clay was the representative for Kentucky’s 8th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1857 to 1859.
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1857 to Mar 1859, Clay missed 71 of 548 roll call votes, which is 13.0%. This is better than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of representatives 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.
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
