Carey was a senator from Wyoming and was a Republican. He served from 1890 to 1895.
He was previously the representative for Wyoming’s at-large district as a Republican from 1889 to 1890; the representative for Wyoming’s at-large district as a Republican from 1887 to 1889; and the representative for Wyoming’s at-large district as a Republican from 1885 to 1887.
![Photo of Sen. Joseph Carey [R-WY, 1890-1895]](/static/legislator-photos/402294-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Aug 1890 to Mar 1895, Carey missed 393 of 914 roll call votes, which is 43.0%. This is 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
