Daniel Sickles, former Representative from New York's 10th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1893-1895	Representative	New York's 10^th District
1859-1861	Representative	New York's 3^rd District
1857-1859	Representative	New York's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1857 to Mar 1895, Sickles missed 765 of 1,346 roll call votes, which is 56.8%. This is worse than the median of 36.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1895. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	55	53.4%	80^th
1858 Mar-May	179	91	50.8%	60^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	26	38.2%	50^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	151	77.4%	80^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	17	24.6%	71^st
1860 Mar-May	126	83	65.9%	86^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	50	51.5%	86^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	40	28.4%	71^st
1893 Aug-Nov	66	44	66.7%	88^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	92	69.2%	67^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	72	71.3%	82^nd
1894 Aug-Aug	20	17	85.0%	88^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	27	56.3%	88^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo