Rep. Reese Brabson
Former Representative for Tennessee’s 3rd District
Brabson was the representative for Tennessee’s 3rd congressional district and was an Ind. Republican-Democrat. He served from 1859 to 1861.
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1859 to Mar 1861, Brabson missed 116 of 433 roll call votes, which is 26.8%. This is on par with the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1861. 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
