Emerson Etheridge, former Representative from Tennessee's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Tennessee's 9^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Tennessee's 9^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Tennessee's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1861, Etheridge missed 549 of 1,752 roll call votes, which is 31.3%. This is worse 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 1853-Mar 1854	110	45	40.9%	82^nd
1854 Apr-Jul	305	139	45.6%	89^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	33	100.0%	96^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	21	13.5%	29^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	15	8.7%	37^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	131	65.5%	91^st
1856 Aug-Aug	73	33	45.2%	81^st
1856 Aug-Aug	44	8	18.2%	83^rd
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	51	22.2%	66^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	8	11.6%	46^th
1860 Mar-May	126	12	9.5%	11^th
1860 Jun-Jun	93	32	34.4%	55^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	21	14.9%	29^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo