Erastus Root, former Representative from New York's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1831-1833	Representative	New York's 11^th District
1815-1817	Representative	New York's 8^th District
1809-1811	Representative	New York's 12^th District
1803-1805	Representative	New York's 14^th District

Voting Record

From Oct 1803 to Mar 1833, Root missed 209 of 999 roll call votes, which is 20.9%. This is worse than the median of 16.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1833. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	96	17	17.7%	50^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	35	2	5.7%	50^th
1809 May-Jun	36	10	27.8%	50^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	2	6.9%	0^th
1810 Feb-Apr	121	28	23.1%	25^th
1810 May-May	3	3	100.0%	25^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	5	4.8%	0^th
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	72	4	5.6%	11^th
1817 Jan-Mar	41	2	4.9%	16^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	4	7.5%	40^th
1832 Mar-May	98	41	41.8%	89^th
1832 Jun-Jul	168	57	33.9%	82^nd
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	34	23.8%	62^nd

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