Nicholas Ware, former Senator for Georgia

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Ware was a senator from Georgia and was (unknown party). He served from 1823 to 1825.

He was previously a senator from Georgia as a Republican from 1821 to 1823.

Photo of Sen. Nicholas Ware [?-GA, 1823-1825]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1822 to May 1824, Ware missed 42 of 221 roll call votes, which is 19.0%. This is worse than the median of 10.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1824. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1822 Jan-May	62	9	14.5%	58^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	5	17.2%	57^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	130	28	21.5%	92^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. Nicholas Ware

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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