Cobb was the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1859 to 1861.
He was previously the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1857 to 1859; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1855 to 1857; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1853 to 1855; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1851 to 1853; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851; and the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1847 to 1849.
![Photo of Rep. Williamson Cobb [D-AL6, 1859-1861]](/static/legislator-photos/402687-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1847 to Jan 1861, Cobb missed 179 of 3,738 roll call votes, which is 4.8%. This is better than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
