Blackburn was a senator from Kentucky and was a Democrat. He served from 1901 to 1907.
He was previously a senator from Kentucky as a Democrat from 1891 to 1897; a senator from Kentucky as a Democrat from 1885 to 1891; the representative for Kentucky’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1883 to 1885; the representative for Kentucky’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1881 to 1883; the representative for Kentucky’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1877 to 1881; and the representative for Kentucky’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1875 to 1877.
![Photo of Sen. Joseph Blackburn [D-KY, 1901-1907]](/static/legislator-photos/401487-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1885 to Mar 1907, Blackburn missed 1,050 of 2,678 roll call votes, which is 39.2%. This is worse than the median of 29.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1907. 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
