Felix Zollicoffer, former Representative from Tennessee's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	Tennessee's 8^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Tennessee's 8^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Tennessee's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1859, Zollicoffer missed 450 of 1,867 roll call votes, which is 24.1%. This is worse than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	109	18	16.5%	43^rd
1854 Apr-Jul	305	87	28.5%	58^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	8	24.2%	67^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	37	23.9%	51^st
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	23	13.3%	41^st
1856 Apr-Jul	200	81	40.5%	75^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	10	13.7%	45^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	8	18.2%	80^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	38	16.5%	42^nd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	37	35.9%	81^st
1858 Mar-May	178	26	14.6%	38^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	24	35.3%	65^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	53	27.2%	64^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