Rep. William Brockenbrough
Former Representative for Florida’s 1st District
Brockenbrough was the representative for Florida’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1845 to 1847.
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1846 to Mar 1847, Brockenbrough missed 238 of 600 roll call votes, which is 39.7%. This is much worse than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. 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
