Rep. Sherrard Clemens
Former Representative for Virginia’s 10th District
Clemens was the representative for Virginia’s 10th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1859 to 1861.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 10th congressional district as a Democrat from 1857 to 1859; and the representative for Virginia’s 15th congressional district as a Democrat from 1851 to 1853.
Legislators who enslaved Black people
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1852 to Mar 1861, Clemens missed 613 of 1,096 roll call votes, which is 55.9%. This is much worse than 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
