Jones was the representative for Virginia’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1807 to 1811.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1805 to 1807; the representative for Virginia’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 1803 to 1805; and the representative for Virginia’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1797 to 1799.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jun 1797 to Mar 1811, Jones missed 285 of 973 roll call votes, which is 29.3%. This is worse than the median of 19.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1811. 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
