Sen. Jeremiah Clemens

Former Senator for Alabama

Clemens was a senator from Alabama and was a Democrat. He served from 1849 to 1853.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Jeremiah Clemens [D-AL, 1849-1853]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1849 to Mar 1853, Clemens missed 464 of 847 roll call votes, which is 54.8%. This is much worse than the median of 22.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1853. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	2	9.1%	25^th
1850 Mar-May	64	21	32.8%	73^rd
1850 Jun-Aug	154	49	31.8%	88^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	106	98.1%	96^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	42	29.8%	73^rd
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	15	39.5%	66^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	46	57.5%	88^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	45	49.5%	92^nd
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	120	94.5%	95^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	18	81.8%	85^th

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

Sen. Jeremiah Clemens

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources