David Kaufman, former Representative from Texas's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1851	Representative	Texas's 1^st District
1847-1849	Representative	Texas's 1^st District
1845-1847	Representative	Texas's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1845 to Jan 1851, Kaufman missed 341 of 1,334 roll call votes, which is 25.6%. This is worse than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	2	2	100.0%	98^th
1846 Apr-Jul	148	42	28.4%	60^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	11	21.6%	42^nd
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	47	26.4%	51^st
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	90	30	33.3%	75^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	42	27.8%	55^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	13	18.6%	43^rd
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	15	9.7%	17^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	107	17	15.9%	51^st
1850 Mar-May	68	5	7.4%	12^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	75	51.4%	91^st
1850 Sep-Sep	117	31	26.5%	66^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	51	11	21.6%	49^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