David Culberson, former Representative from Texas's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Texas's 4^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Texas's 4^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Texas's 4^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Texas's 4^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Texas's 4^th District
1885-1887	Representative	Texas's 4^th District
1883-1885	Representative	Texas's 4^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Texas's 2^nd District
1877-1881	Representative	Texas's 2^nd District
1875-1877	Representative	Texas's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1875 to Mar 1897, Culberson missed 942 of 3,836 roll call votes, which is 24.6%. This is better than the median of 36.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	60	7	11.7%	11^th
1876 Apr-Jul	104	14	13.5%	0^th
1876 Aug-Aug	34	30	88.2%	78^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	17	13.7%	22^nd
1877 Oct-Dec	36	4	11.1%	55^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	7	12.5%	36^th
1878 Mar-May	103	4	3.9%	0^th
1878 Jun-Jun	65	15	23.1%	64^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	115	35	30.4%	64^th
1879 Mar-Jul	137	5	3.6%	13^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	3	8.8%	13^th
1880 Mar-May	115	4	3.5%	0^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	7	21.9%	33^rd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	21	17.6%	33^rd
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	73	25	34.2%	72^nd
1882 Apr-Jul	166	80	48.2%	68^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	2	28.6%	42^nd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	26	26.0%	62^nd
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	15	44.1%	77^th
1884 Mar-May	70	1	1.4%	0^th
1884 Jun-Jul	83	28	33.7%	27^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	47	32.2%	42^nd
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	37	9	24.3%	58^th
1886 Apr-Jul	155	30	19.4%	37^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	1	16.7%	32^nd
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	12	11.7%	23^rd
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	5	12.8%	20^th
1888 Mar-May	104	43	41.3%	53^rd
1888 Jun-Aug	47	4	8.5%	4^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	8	50.0%	37^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	24	21.2%	27^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	70	34	48.6%	82^nd
1890 Mar-May	109	29	26.6%	54^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	35	20.7%	20^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	19	35.8%	36^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	33	19.1%	30^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	8	13.8%	18^th
1892 Apr-Jul	158	26	16.5%	9^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	1	25.0%	48^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	52	65.8%	93^rd
1893 Aug-Nov	67	35	52.2%	63^rd
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	12	9.0%	14^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	38	37.6%	37^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	6	30.0%	23^rd
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	24	50.0%	90^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	7	38.9%	84^th
1896 Mar-May	53	17	32.1%	40^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	5	17.9%	26^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	28	45.2%	61^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo