Rep. Seaborn Reese

Former Representative from Georgia’s 8^th District, Democrat

Reese, a Democrat, was the representative for Georgia's 8^th congressional district from 1885 to 1887.

He was previously the representative for Georgia's 8^th congressional district (1883-1885); and the representative for Georgia's 8^th congressional district (1881-1883).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1882 to Mar 1887, Reese missed 289 of 740 roll call votes, which is 39.1%. This is worse than the median of 28.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	28	28.0%	58^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	1	2.9%	7^th
1884 Mar-May	71	7	9.9%	13^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	22	26.5%	33^rd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	18	12.3%	14^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	39	16	41.0%	82^nd
1886 Apr-Jul	158	106	67.1%	94^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	6	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	85	82.5%	98^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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

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