Amasa Cobb, former Representative from Wisconsin's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1865-1871	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1863-1865	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1863 to Mar 1871, Cobb missed 245 of 2,552 roll call votes, which is 9.6%. This is better than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1871. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	130	14	10.8%	33^rd
1864 Mar-May	170	34	20.0%	38^th
1864 Jun-Jul	129	10	7.8%	8^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	8	4.7%	0^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	103	7	6.8%	27^th
1866 Mar-May	142	35	24.6%	54^th
1866 Jun-Jul	142	20	14.1%	31^st
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	14	6.3%	8^th
1867 Mar-Mar	61	17	27.9%	74^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1867 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	54^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	140	2	1.4%	2^nd
1868 Mar-May	125	25	20.0%	25^th
1868 Jun-Jul	150	5	3.3%	1^st
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	7	3.6%	1^st
1869 Mar-Apr	81	7	8.6%	14^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	4	5.6%	8^th
1870 Mar-May	147	23	15.6%	23^rd
1870 Jun-Jul	170	9	5.3%	6^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	3	1.9%	2^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