Alexander Evans, former Representative from Maryland's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1851-1853	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1849-1851	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1847-1849	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1853, Evans missed 560 of 1,499 roll call votes, which is 37.4%. This is worse than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	100	29	29.0%	76^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	31	20.5%	48^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	10	14.3%	37^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	48	31.0%	75^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	15	13.9%	36^th
1850 Mar-May	68	36	52.9%	90^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	85	58.2%	99^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	58	49.6%	93^rd
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	45	33.8%	83^rd
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	95	24	25.3%	54^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	99	55.6%	91^st
1852 Aug-Aug	64	25	39.1%	68^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	55	48.2%	80^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