Archibald Atkinson, former Representative from Virginia's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1847-1849	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1845-1847	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1843-1845	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1849, Atkinson missed 484 of 1,701 roll call votes, which is 28.5%. This is worse than the median of 23.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1849. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	138	45	32.6%	72^nd
1844 Mar-May	207	51	24.6%	67^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	17	22.4%	51^st
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	43	25.3%	60^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	50	33.6%	72^nd
1846 Apr-Jul	263	65	24.7%	50^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	5	9.8%	21^st
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	58	32.6%	63^rd
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	93	58	62.4%	96^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	33	21.9%	41^st
1848 Aug-Aug	70	12	17.1%	37^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	47	30.3%	71^st

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