Alexander Coffroth, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 17th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1879-1881	Representative	Pennsylvania's 17^th District
1865-1867	Representative	Pennsylvania's 16^th District
1863-1865	Representative	Pennsylvania's 16^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1863 to Mar 1881, Coffroth missed 346 of 1,276 roll call votes, which is 27.1%. This is worse than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1881. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	125	28	22.4%	68^th
1864 Mar-May	170	100	58.8%	95^th
1864 Jun-Jul	129	22	17.1%	37^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	49	28.7%	68^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	27	11	40.7%	89^th
1866 Mar-May	141	68	48.2%	94^th
1866 Jun-Jul	76	24	31.6%	82^nd
1879 Mar-Jul	137	3	2.2%	6^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	4	11.8%	22^nd
1880 Mar-May	115	20	17.4%	18^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	2	6.3%	10^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	15	12.6%	14^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