George Faris, former Representative from Indiana's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1899-1901	Representative	Indiana's 5^th District
1897-1899	Representative	Indiana's 5^th District
1895-1897	Representative	Indiana's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1895 to Mar 1901, Faris missed 186 of 489 roll call votes, which is 38.0%. This is worse than the median of 31.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1901. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	1	5.6%	18^th
1896 Mar-May	54	20	37.0%	54^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	3	10.7%	12^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	22	35.5%	46^th
1897 Mar-Jul	37	13	35.1%	55^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	9	31.0%	62^nd
1898 Mar-May	53	16	30.2%	60^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	15	57.7%	79^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	36	2	5.6%	4^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	11	57.9%	94^th
1900 Mar-May	49	29	59.2%	90^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	4	25.0%	55^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	41	66.1%	92^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo