Asa Packer, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 13th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1857	Representative	Pennsylvania's 13^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Pennsylvania's 13^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1857, Packer missed 689 of 1,327 roll call votes, which is 51.9%. This is worse than the median of 25.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1857. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	113	51	45.1%	94^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	115	37.7%	70^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	10	30.3%	67^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	67	43.2%	85^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	140	80.5%	99^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	131	65.5%	94^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	70	95.9%	96^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	9	20.5%	71^st
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	96	41.7%	85^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