Asa Biggs, former Senator from North Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1859	Senator	North Carolina
1845-1847	Representative	North Carolina's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1856 to May 1858, Biggs missed 67 of 666 roll call votes, which is 10.1%. This is better than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1858. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1856 Jan-Mar	32	9	28.1%	45^th
1856 Apr-Jul	130	10	7.7%	2^nd
1856 Aug-Aug	124	2	1.6%	0^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	6	37.5%	55^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	27	18.8%	42^nd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	55	3	5.5%	15^th
1858 Mar-May	136	7	5.1%	3^rd
1857 Mar-Mar	29	3	10.3%	23^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo