Rep. Edward Golladay
Former Representative for Tennessee’s 5th District
Golladay was the representative for Tennessee’s 5th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1871 to 1873.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1871 to Mar 1873, Golladay missed 77 of 517 roll call votes, which is 14.9%. This is better than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1873. 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