Eli Thayer, former Representative from Massachusetts's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Massachusetts's 9^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Massachusetts's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1857 to Mar 1861, Thayer missed 198 of 971 roll call votes, which is 20.4%. This is better than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	98	1	1.0%	3^rd
1858 Mar-May	178	38	21.3%	63^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	68	16	23.5%	46^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	17	8.7%	19^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	19	27.5%	73^rd
1860 Mar-May	126	34	27.0%	53^rd
1860 Jun-Jun	97	30	30.9%	48^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	140	43	30.7%	64^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