David Kilgore, former Representative from Indiana's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Indiana's 5^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Indiana's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1857 to Mar 1861, Kilgore missed 239 of 972 roll call votes, which is 24.6%. This is worse than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	98	7	7.1%	24^th
1858 Mar-May	178	22	12.4%	32^nd
1858 Jun-Jun	68	40	58.8%	88^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	43	22.1%	61^st
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	9	13.0%	49^th
1860 Mar-May	126	36	28.6%	56^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	53	54.6%	81^st
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	29	20.6%	45^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