John Gordon, former Senator for Georgia

Gordon was a senator from Georgia and was a Democrat. He served from 1891 to 1897.

He was previously a senator from Georgia as a Democrat from 1873 to 1881.

Photo of Sen. John Gordon [D-GA, 1891-1897]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1873 to Mar 1897, Gordon missed 1,378 of 2,749 roll call votes, which is 50.1%. This is much worse than the median of 35.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1897. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	21	36.8%	57^th
1874 Mar-May	116	50	43.1%	71^st
1874 Jun-Jun	82	20	24.4%	29^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	149	46	30.9%	57^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	5	31.2%	43^rd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	45	50.6%	62^nd
1876 Apr-Jul	186	103	55.4%	71^st
1876 Aug-Aug	51	14	27.5%	57^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	44	52.4%	75^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	5	20.8%	43^rd
1877 Oct-Dec	71	6	8.5%	25^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	18	26.1%	42^nd
1878 Mar-May	110	55	50.0%	83^rd
1878 Jun-Jun	83	11	13.3%	17^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	37	15.7%	8^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	4	26.7%	64^th
1879 Mar-Jul	180	132	73.3%	86^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	23	46.9%	79^th
1880 Mar-May	115	51	44.3%	64^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	23	88.5%	93^rd
1892 Apr-Jul	78	74	94.9%	98^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	78	74.3%	93^rd
1893 Aug-Oct	77	44	57.1%	83^rd
1894 Jan-Mar	35	17	48.6%	82^nd
1894 Apr-Jul	321	197	61.4%	85^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	20	95.2%	88^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	83	82.2%	96^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	1	16.7%	29^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	29	80.6%	98^th
1896 Mar-May	66	44	66.7%	83^rd
1896 Jun-Jun	24	23	95.8%	81^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	55	77.5%	87^th

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

Sen. John Gordon

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Missed Votes

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