Alexander Dockery, former Representative from Missouri's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1899	Representative	Missouri's 3^rd District
1893-1895	Representative	Missouri's 3^rd District
1891-1893	Representative	Missouri's 3^rd District
1889-1891	Representative	Missouri's 3^rd District
1887-1889	Representative	Missouri's 3^rd District
1885-1887	Representative	Missouri's 3^rd District
1883-1885	Representative	Missouri's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1883 to Mar 1899, Dockery missed 599 of 2,522 roll call votes, which is 23.8%. This is better than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1899. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	4	11.8%	33^rd
1884 Mar-May	70	9	12.9%	11^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	55	66.3%	85^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	47	32.2%	48^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	37	3	8.1%	24^th
1886 Apr-Jul	155	26	16.8%	24^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	102	32	31.4%	68^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	2	5.1%	11^th
1888 Mar-May	104	45	43.3%	66^th
1888 Jun-Aug	46	2	4.3%	2^nd
1888 Sep-Oct	16	6	37.5%	27^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	112	8	7.1%	14^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	70	33	47.1%	84^th
1890 Mar-May	108	13	12.0%	18^th
1890 Jun-Aug	167	58	34.7%	44^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	47	88.7%	88^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	172	39	22.7%	39^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	7	12.1%	14^th
1892 Apr-Jul	158	37	23.4%	16^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	7	8.9%	5^th
1893 Aug-Nov	67	1	1.5%	2^nd
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	4	3.0%	7^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	13	12.9%	16^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	1	5.0%	4^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	47	6	12.8%	27^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	16	4	25.0%	71^st
1896 Mar-May	53	20	37.7%	52^nd
1896 Jun-Jun	27	10	37.0%	58^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	59	7	11.9%	4^th
1897 Mar-Jul	38	17	44.7%	67^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	28	6	21.4%	41^st
1898 Mar-May	53	13	24.5%	42^nd
1898 Jun-Jul	26	9	34.6%	46^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	35	8	22.9%	32^nd

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo