George Hires, former Representative from New Jersey's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1887-1889	Representative	New Jersey's 1^st District
1885-1887	Representative	New Jersey's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1885 to Mar 1889, Hires missed 258 of 617 roll call votes, which is 41.8%. This is worse than the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1889. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	36	10	27.8%	62^nd
1886 Apr-Jul	154	72	46.8%	87^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	3	50.0%	64^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	38	36.9%	77^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	37	18	48.6%	89^th
1888 Mar-May	105	51	48.6%	62^nd
1888 Jun-Aug	47	27	57.4%	65^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	10	62.5%	48^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	29	25.7%	35^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