Francis Spinner, former Representative from New York's 17th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	New York's 17^th District
1857-1859	Representative	New York's 17^th District
1855-1857	Representative	New York's 17^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1855 to Mar 1861, Spinner missed 122 of 1,694 roll call votes, which is 7.2%. This is better 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 1855-Mar 1856	174	11	6.3%	27^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	47	23.5%	36^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	1	1.4%	6^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	1	2.3%	19^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	15	6.5%	23^rd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	98	16	16.3%	58^th
1858 Mar-May	178	6	3.4%	4^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	4	5.9%	10^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	15	7.7%	14^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1860 Mar-May	126	2	1.6%	1^st
1860 Jun-Jun	97	3	3.1%	2^nd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	1	0.7%	0^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