Alexander Duncan, former Representative from Ohio's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1843-1845	Representative	Ohio's 1^st District
1839-1841	Representative	Ohio's 1^st District
1837-1839	Representative	Ohio's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1845, Duncan missed 697 of 1,794 roll call votes, which is 38.9%. This is worse than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1845. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	54	7	13.0%	52^nd
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	15	28.8%	63^rd
1838 Mar-May	120	53	44.2%	72^nd
1838 Jun-Jul	100	51	51.0%	88^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	143	80	55.9%	85^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	156	31	19.9%	67^th
1840 Mar-May	250	86	34.4%	51^st
1840 Jun-Jul	207	98	47.3%	74^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	69	56.1%	86^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	136	38	27.9%	71^st
1844 Mar-May	207	78	37.7%	79^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	28	36.8%	73^rd
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	63	37.1%	83^rd

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