Edson Olds, former Representative from Ohio's 12th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1853-1855	Representative	Ohio's 12^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Ohio's 9^th District
1849-1851	Representative	Ohio's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1849 to Mar 1855, Olds missed 503 of 1,626 roll call votes, which is 30.9%. This is worse than the median of 30.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1855. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	31	28.7%	77^th
1850 Mar-May	68	25	36.8%	83^rd
1850 Jun-Aug	146	31	21.2%	60^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	63	53.8%	88^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	45	33.8%	81^st
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	93	11	11.8%	16^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	30	16.9%	21^st
1852 Aug-Aug	64	38	59.4%	83^rd
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	48	42.1%	74^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	112	43	38.4%	76^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	75	24.6%	29^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	12	36.4%	69^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	51	32.9%	69^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