Rep. John Reeves Jones Daniel
Former Representative for North Carolina’s 6th District
Daniel was the representative for North Carolina’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1851 to 1853.
He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851; the representative for North Carolina’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1847 to 1849; the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1845 to 1847; the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845; and the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1841 to 1843.
Legislators who enslaved Black people
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1841 to Mar 1853, Daniel missed 837 of 3,718 roll call votes, which is 22.5%. This is on par with the median of 27.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. 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
