David Starkweather, former Representative from Ohio's 18th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1847	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District
1839-1841	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1839 to Mar 1847, Starkweather missed 330 of 1,376 roll call votes, which is 24.0%. This is better than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	155	22	14.2%	32^nd
1840 Mar-May	250	77	30.8%	36^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	50	24.2%	33^rd
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	37	30.1%	41^st
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	44	29.5%	68^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	52	19.8%	33^rd
1846 Aug-Aug	51	18	35.3%	70^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	30	16.9%	18^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