Eli Shorter, former Representative from Alabama's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	Alabama's 2^nd District
1855-1857	Representative	Alabama's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1855 to Mar 1859, Shorter missed 339 of 1,264 roll call votes, which is 26.8%. This is worse than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	59	34.1%	89^th
1856 Apr-Jul	199	72	36.2%	65^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	12	16.4%	52^nd
1856 Aug-Aug	44	6	13.6%	71^st
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	49	21.2%	55^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	28	27.2%	68^th
1858 Mar-May	178	43	24.2%	59^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	24	35.3%	65^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	46	23.6%	57^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