Clarke was the representative for Alabama’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1895 to 1897.
He was previously the representative for Alabama’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1893 to 1895; the representative for Alabama’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1891 to 1893; and the representative for Alabama’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1889 to 1891.
![Photo of Rep. Richard Clarke [D-AL1, 1895-1897]](/static/legislator-photos/402607-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1889 to Mar 1897, Clarke missed 598 of 1,425 roll call votes, which is 42.0%. This is on par with the median of 36.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1897. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
