Rep. Joseph Clay
Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 1st District
Clay was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1807 to 1809.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1805 to 1807; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1803 to 1805.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Oct 1803 to Jan 1809, Clay missed 171 of 410 roll call votes, which is 41.7%. This is much worse than the median of 19.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1809. 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
