Rep. John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne
Former Representative for Mississippi
Claiborne was the representative for Mississippi and was a Democrat. He served from 1837 to 1839.
He was previously the representative for Mississippi as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837.
![Photo of Rep. John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne [D-MS-1, 1837-1839]](/static/legislator-photos/402543-200px.jpeg)
Legislators who enslaved Black people
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1835 to Feb 1838, Claiborne missed 198 of 545 roll call votes, which is 36.3%. This is much worse than the median of 23.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1838. 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
