Caleb Smith, former Representative from Indiana's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1847-1849	Representative	Indiana's 4^th District
1845-1847	Representative	Indiana's 4^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Indiana's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1849, Smith missed 460 of 1,698 roll call votes, which is 27.1%. 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	135	60	44.4%	84^th
1844 Mar-May	207	42	20.3%	56^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	23	30.3%	73^rd
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	35	20.6%	53^rd
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	146	24	16.4%	37^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	69	26.2%	58^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	31	60.8%	88^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	57	32.6%	62^nd
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	99	31	31.3%	77^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	44	29.1%	59^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	12	17.1%	37^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	32	20.6%	48^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