Camden was a senator from West Virginia and was a Democrat. He served from 1893 to 1895.
He was previously a senator from West Virginia as a Democrat from 1881 to 1887.
![Photo of Sen. Johnson Camden [D-WV, 1893-1895]](/static/legislator-photos/402220-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1881 to Mar 1895, Camden missed 1,488 of 2,523 roll call votes, which is 59.0%. This is much worse than the median of 34.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1895. 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
