Bratton was the representative for Maryland’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1893 to 1895.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Aug 1893 to May 1894, Bratton missed 213 of 251 roll call votes, which is 84.9%. This is much worse than the median of 37.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1894. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
