Edward McGaughey, former Representative from Indiana's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1851	Representative	Indiana's 7^th District
1845-1847	Representative	Indiana's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1845 to Mar 1851, McGaughey missed 277 of 1,207 roll call votes, which is 22.9%. This is worse than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 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	146	14	9.6%	17^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	44	16.7%	21^st
1846 Aug-Aug	51	26	51.0%	85^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	46	26.3%	49^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	32	29.6%	78^th
1850 Mar-May	68	18	26.5%	50^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	37	25.3%	67^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	46	39.3%	79^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	14	10.5%	19^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