Brent was the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district and was an Adams. He served from 1827 to 1829.
He was previously the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district as an Adams from 1825 to 1827; and the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district as (unknown party) from 1823 to 1825.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1823 to Mar 1829, Brent missed 112 of 438 roll call votes, which is 25.6%. This is worse than the median of 16.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1829. 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
