Joseph Brown, former Senator for Georgia

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Brown was a senator from Georgia and was a Democrat. He served from 1885 to 1891.

He was previously a senator from Georgia as a Democrat from 1880 to 1885.

Photo of Sen. Joseph Brown [D-GA, 1885-1891]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From May 1880 to Mar 1891, Brown missed 1,367 of 3,005 roll call votes, which is 45.5%. This is worse than the median of 35.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1891. 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
1880 Mar-May	12	1	8.3%	0^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	4	10.3%	7^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	51	31.1%	50^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	13	13.5%	20^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	87	41.0%	83^rd
1882 Aug-Aug	38	4	10.5%	32^nd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	162	40.4%	74^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	30	16.9%	32^nd
1881 Oct-Oct	61	49	80.3%	71^st
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	39	60.0%	93^rd
1884 Mar-May	114	19	16.7%	20^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	4	5.1%	5^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	67	39.2%	67^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	17	27.0%	52^nd
1886 Apr-Jul	234	38	16.2%	24^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	4	33.3%	51^st
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	78	54.5%	88^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	19^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	17	34.0%	49^th
1888 Mar-May	64	18	28.1%	41^st
1888 Jun-Aug	62	21	33.9%	32^nd
1888 Sep-Oct	14	3	21.4%	24^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	115	57.8%	79^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	31	100.0%	95^th
1890 Mar-May	114	114	100.0%	98^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	150	100.0%	93^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	79	79	100.0%	92^nd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	143	100.0%	98^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	8	88.9%	82^nd

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. Joseph Brown

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Missed Votes

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