Edward Cross, former Representative from Arkansas's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1843-1845	Representative	Arkansas's 1^st District
1839-1843	Representative	Arkansas's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1839 to Mar 1845, Cross missed 794 of 2,287 roll call votes, which is 34.7%. This is worse than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1845. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	154	39	25.3%	79^th
1840 Mar-May	250	98	39.2%	58^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	60	29.0%	51^st
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	51	41.5%	74^th
1841 May-Sep	259	137	52.9%	92^nd
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	202	67	33.2%	70^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	56	25.9%	50^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	27	23.3%	56^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	54	31.4%	68^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	135	44	32.6%	77^th
1844 Mar-May	207	58	28.0%	64^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	40	52.6%	90^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	63	37.1%	83^rd

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