Hill was a senator from Georgia and was a Republican. He served from 1871 to 1873.
He was previously the representative for Georgia’s 7th congressional district as an Ind. Republican-Democrat from 1859 to 1861; and the representative for Georgia’s 7th congressional district as an American from 1857 to 1859.
![Photo of Sen. Joshua Hill [R-GA, 1871-1873]](/data/photos/405461-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Feb 1871 to Mar 1873, Hill missed 317 of 955 roll call votes, which is 33.2%. This is on par with the median of 31.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1873. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
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