Elisha Whittlesey, former Representative from Ohio's 16th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1839	Representative	Ohio's 16^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Ohio's 16^th District
1833-1835	Representative	Ohio's 16^th District
1831-1833	Representative	Ohio's 13^th District
1829-1831	Representative	Ohio's 13^th District
1827-1829	Representative	Ohio's 13^th District
1825-1827	Representative	Ohio's 13^th District
1823-1825	Representative	Ohio's 13^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1823 to Jul 1838, Whittlesey missed 95 of 2,277 roll call votes, which is 4.2%. This is better than the median of 23.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1838. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1823-May 1824	79	1	1.3%	0^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1826 Jan-May	57	1	1.8%	6^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	5	3.2%	9^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	3	4.1%	9^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	2	1.1%	3^rd
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1832 Mar-May	98	1	1.0%	8^th
1832 Jun-Jul	168	3	1.8%	3^rd
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	4	2.8%	3^rd
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	1	2.9%	19^th
1834 Mar-May	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Jun-Jun	94	1	1.1%	4^th
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	35	33.3%	92^nd
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1836 Mar-May	150	12	8.0%	9^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	2	1.7%	1^st
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	17	12.5%	13^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	2	3.7%	13^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	1	1.9%	0^th
1838 Mar-May	120	0	0.0%	0^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	4	4.0%	3^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