Rep. Joseph Jorgensen

Former Representative for Virginia’s 4^th District

Jorgensen was the representative for Virginia’s 4^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1881 to 1883.

He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 4^th congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1881.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Oct 1877 to Mar 1883, Jorgensen missed 566 of 1,165 roll call votes, which is 48.6%. This is much worse than the median of 28.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1883. 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
1877 Oct-Dec	37	10	27.0%	62^nd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	23	41.1%	90^th
1878 Mar-May	103	53	51.5%	97^th
1878 Jun-Jun	65	15	23.1%	62^nd
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	116	50	43.1%	94^th
1879 Mar-Jul	137	96	70.1%	96^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	35	23	65.7%	97^th
1880 Mar-May	116	68	58.6%	94^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	31	96.9%	92^nd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	68	57.1%	96^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	75	27	36.0%	64^th
1882 Apr-Jul	167	67	40.1%	48^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	7	100.0%	73^rd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	28	28.0%	52^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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources