Benjamin Birdsall, former Representative from Iowa's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1909	Representative	Iowa's 3^rd District
1905-1907	Representative	Iowa's 3^rd District
1903-1905	Representative	Iowa's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Nov 1903 to Mar 1909, Birdsall missed 194 of 532 roll call votes, which is 36.5%. This is worse than the median of 29.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1909. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1903 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	4	8.2%	8^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	6	18.8%	37^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	57	7	12.3%	14^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	3	15.0%	28^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	8	23.5%	59^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	146	54.3%	77^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	41	20	48.8%	81^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