Alston was the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district and was a Jackson. He served from 1829 to 1831.
He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Jackson from 1827 to 1829; the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827; the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1811 to 1815; the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1807 to 1811; the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1805 to 1807; the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1803 to 1805; the representative for North Carolina’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1801 to 1803; and the representative for North Carolina’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1799 to 1801.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1799 to Mar 1831, Alston missed 253 of 2,339 roll call votes, which is 10.8%. This is better than the median of 14.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1831. 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
