Goode was the representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1859 to 1861.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1857 to 1859; the representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1855 to 1857; the representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1853 to 1855; and the representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1841 to 1843.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1841 to Feb 1860, Goode missed 674 of 2,859 roll call votes, which is 23.6%. This is on par with the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1860. 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
