Rep. Augustus Brandegee
Former Representative for Connecticut’s 3rd District
Brandegee was the representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1865 to 1867.
He was previously the representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from Dec 7, 1863 to Mar 3, 1865.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1863 to Mar 1867, Brandegee missed 570 of 1,213 roll call votes, which is 47.0%. This is much worse than the median of 25.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1867. 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