Emile La Sére, former Representative from Louisiana's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1851	Representative	Louisiana's 1^st District
1847-1849	Representative	Louisiana's 1^st District
1845-1847	Representative	Louisiana's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1845 to Mar 1851, La Sére missed 324 of 1,635 roll call votes, which is 19.8%. 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 1845-Mar 1846	103	16	15.5%	31^st
1846 Apr-Jul	263	74	28.1%	58^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	15	29.4%	65^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	29	16.3%	15^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	92	18	19.6%	48^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	47	31.1%	60^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	30	42.9%	74^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	26	16.8%	37^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	14	13.0%	39^th
1850 Mar-May	68	8	11.8%	21^st
1850 Jun-Aug	146	7	4.8%	10^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	5	4.3%	9^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	35	26.3%	61^st

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