Aaron Ford, former Representative from Mississippi's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1942	Representative	Mississippi's 4^th District
1937-1938	Representative	Mississippi's 4^th District
1935-1936	Representative	Mississippi's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1935 to Nov 1942, Ford missed 20 of 739 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is better than the median of 4.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1942. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1935 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	75^th
1935 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	32^nd
1935 Jul-Aug	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1936 Jan-Jun	80	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	1	5.3%	32^nd
1937 Apr-Jun	41	10	24.4%	78^th
1937 Jul-Aug	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	1	2.4%	69^th
1939 Jul-Aug	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	25	1	4.0%	59^th
1940 Oct-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	1	6.7%	77^th
1942 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	30	3	10.0%	79^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	1	9.1%	55^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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