Cave Johnson, former Representative from Tennessee's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1843-1845	Representative	Tennessee's 9^th District
1839-1843	Representative	Tennessee's 11^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Tennessee's 11^th District
1833-1835	Representative	Tennessee's 11^th District
1831-1833	Representative	Tennessee's 8^th District
1829-1831	Representative	Tennessee's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1829 to Mar 1845, Johnson missed 710 of 3,809 roll call votes, which is 18.6%. This is better than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1845. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	7	3.8%	0^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	6	6.8%	17^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1832 Mar-May	97	18	18.6%	36^th
1832 Jun-Jul	168	35	20.8%	64^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	37	25.9%	57^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	3	8.6%	32^nd
1834 Mar-May	91	20	22.0%	42^nd
1834 Jun-Jun	94	32	34.0%	74^th
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	63	60.0%	94^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	3	5.3%	13^th
1836 Mar-May	150	16	10.7%	8^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	21	18.1%	30^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	12	8.8%	4^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	158	41	25.9%	81^st
1840 Mar-May	250	114	45.6%	67^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	30	14.5%	14^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	43	35.0%	63^rd
1841 May-Sep	260	26	10.0%	22^nd
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	202	75	37.1%	85^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	21	9.7%	10^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	14	12.1%	27^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	16	9.3%	17^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	136	4	2.9%	5^th
1844 Mar-May	207	22	10.6%	18^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	13	17.1%	30^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	18	10.6%	13^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