Emery Potter, former Representative from Ohio's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1851	Representative	Ohio's 5^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Ohio's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1851, Potter missed 240 of 1,161 roll call votes, which is 20.7%. This is better 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 1843-Feb 1844	136	26	19.1%	54^th
1844 Mar-May	207	36	17.4%	46^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	21	27.6%	69^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	54	31.8%	73^rd
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	18	16.7%	52^nd
1850 Mar-May	68	3	4.4%	6^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	18	12.3%	35^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	20	17.1%	53^rd
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	44	33.1%	78^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